Quotes By Fareed Zakaria

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

The world is changing very profoundly.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

American influence is not what it used to be.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.