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1. "Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation" ~ Fareed Zakaria
2. "In fact, some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out" ~ Fareed Zakaria
3. "France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America." ~ Fareed Zakaria
4. "Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to modernize. Schoolchildren in the Soviet era were taught that they lived in the richest country in the world. In this case communist propaganda was true" ~ Fareed Zakaria
5. "Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it." ~ Fareed Zakaria
6. "Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do." ~ Fareed Zakaria
7. "It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth." ~ Fareed Zakaria
8. "Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession." ~ Fareed Zakaria
9. "The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis." ~ Fareed Zakaria
10. "There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general." ~ Fareed Zakaria
11. "Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth." ~ Fareed Zakaria
12. "I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written." ~ Fareed Zakaria
13. "I grew up in Mumbai." ~ Fareed Zakaria
14. "I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible." ~ Fareed Zakaria
15. "I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview." ~ Fareed Zakaria
16. "I think that liberals need to grow up." ~ Fareed Zakaria
17. "It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal." ~ Fareed Zakaria
18. "...during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps--let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In it own crisis, the West did exactly the opposite on all three fronts." ~ Fareed Zakaria
19. "What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less." ~ Fareed Zakaria
20. "But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down." ~ Fareed Zakaria
21. "In thirty years Iraq too has gone from being among the most modern and secular of Arab countries -with women working, artists thriving, journalists writing- into a squalid playpen for a megalomaniac." ~ Fareed Zakaria
22. "California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land." ~ Fareed Zakaria
23. "What remains of the old Protestant fundamentalism is politics: abortion, gays, evolution. these issues are what binds congregations together. but even here things have changed as Americans have become more tolerant of many of these social taboos. Today many fundamentalist churches take nominally tough positions on, say, homosexuality but increasingly do little else for fear of offending the average believer, whom one schollar calls the "unchurched Harry". All it really takes to be a fundamentalist these days is to watch the TV shows, go to the theme parks, buy Christian rock, and vote Republican. The Sociologist Mark Shilbey, calls it the Californication of conservative Protestantism." ~ Fareed Zakaria
24. "Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored for even a minute." ~ Fareed Zakaria
25. "The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever the ailment, more democracy became the cure." ~ Fareed Zakaria
26. "More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, preciselly because they lead rather than follow." ~ Fareed Zakaria
27. "Andrew Moraviscik, one of the best American scholars of Europe, points out that once you exclude translators and clerical workers, the European Commission employs 2.500 officials, "fewer than any moderately sized European city and less than 1 percent of the number employed by the French state alone". As for its undemocratic nature, any new law it wishes to pass needs more than 71 percent of the weighted national-government votes - "a larger proportion than the required to amend the American Constitution"." ~ Fareed Zakaria
28. "In the world of journalism, the personal Web site ("blog") was hailed as the killer of the traditional media. In fact it has become hailed as the killer of the traditional media. In fact it has become something quite different. Far from replacing newspapers and magazines, the best blogs-and the best are very clever- have become guides to them, pointing to unusual sources and commenting on familiar ones. They have become mediators for the informed public." ~ Fareed Zakaria
29. "Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future." ~ Fareed Zakaria
30. "Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world." ~ Fareed Zakaria
31. "... low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ..." ~ Fareed Zakaria
32. "Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma" ~ Fareed Zakaria
33. "The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore." ~ Fareed Zakaria
34. "Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order." ~ Fareed Zakaria
35. "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." ~ Fareed Zakaria
36. "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." ~ Fareed Zakaria
37. "I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else." ~ Fareed Zakaria
38. "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." ~ Fareed Zakaria
39. "Culture follows power." ~ Fareed Zakaria
40. "I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom." ~ Fareed Zakaria
41. "If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him." ~ Fareed Zakaria
42. "In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap." ~ Fareed Zakaria
43. "Alaska itself is an unusual state." ~ Fareed Zakaria
44. "In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that." ~ Fareed Zakaria
45. "For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of law - is difficult and even dangerous for the ruling elites" ~ Fareed Zakaria
46. "Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host of -- HBO's hit show Real Time, I find Maher to be one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life in general out there. It doesn't mean I always agree with him. I always find him funny, though." ~ Fareed Zakaria
47. "A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end." ~ Fareed Zakaria

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