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Fareed Zakaria
American
Journalist
Born:
Jan 20
,
1964
Great
Me
People
Work
World
You
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria
War
People
Money
Berlin Wall
Fall
Cold
Cold War
Collapse
Berlin
Only
Ideas
Fell
Also
Trade
Traditional
End
Wall
Soviet
Soviet Union
After
Union
Barrier
Barriers
Flow
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
Today
Technology
Science
World
Immigration
Envy
Science And Technology
System
See
Generous
Developments
Economy
Massive
Policies
Because
American
American Economy
Funding
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
Fareed Zakaria
Government
Key
Promoting
Absolutely
Catalyst
Clear
Role
Growth
Plays
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria
Great
Business
Great Deal
Made
Finished
Revolution
Sense
Difficult
Other
Libya
Has-Been
One Of The Things
Uncertainty
Terms
Well
Deal
Still
Been
Very
Oil
Harder
Actually
Things
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
Fareed Zakaria
Work
You
Ideology
Seems
Put
Failing
Powerful
Very
Just
Aside
Incentive
The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
Fareed Zakaria
Situation
Syria
Libya
Quite
Different
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.
Fareed Zakaria
War
World
Country
Every
Cold
Cold War
States
Battleground
Scared
Russia
Take
Over
Became
Because
Go
Were
Going
Interested
United
United States
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria
Life
Promises
Thomas
Once
Threats
Scholar
Fail
Very
Expensive
Succeed
Noted
International
Things
Two
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
Fareed Zakaria
Hussein
Fact
Could
Factories
Had
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Make
Were
His
Arsenal
In Fact
Soap
Certain
Barely
Nuclear
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Fareed Zakaria
Time
Political
Political Power
Power
Possible
Leading
Countries
Dominant
Same
Same Time
Two
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria
World
Power
Shifts
Debt
Creditors
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
Work
Education
Innovation
Immigration
Has-Been
One Thing
Seem
Rate
Brutal
Schedule
Investment
Mostly
Been
Historically
America
The One Thing
Anything
Fueled
Productivity
Growth
Thing
Growth Rate
I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
Fareed Zakaria
World
Everything
Possible
Seemed
Up
Where
Grew
Culture follows power.
Fareed Zakaria
Culture
Power
Follows
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
Fareed Zakaria
Me
Happy
Talk
Him
Calls
Iraq
Up
Senator
Ask
Should
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Today
World
Rest
Worse
States
Would
Would-Be
Shape
Economy
Than
Much
Growing
United
United States
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
Fareed Zakaria
Fruit
Degree
Weather
Willing
Citizens
Easy
Find
Pick
Been
American
American Citizens
Who
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Fareed Zakaria
World
Crisis
General
Employment
Western
Huge
Western World
America
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
Feeling
Markets
Crisis
More
Long-Term
Than
America
Trajectory
Short-Term
Interested
Much
Acute
If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
Fareed Zakaria
You
Money
Sector
India
Entirely
Roads
Almost
Countries
Look
Built
How
Doing
Go
Private
Private Sector
Being
Europe
Many
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Daily
Me
Too Much
Will
Too
Guest
Jon
Jon Stewart
He
Continue
Much
Show
Fun
Daily Show
Competitive
Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
Fareed Zakaria
Me
You
World
Around
Affecting
Happening
Things
I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
Fareed Zakaria
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Judged
Should
Standard
Applied
American influence is not what it used to be.
Fareed Zakaria
American
Influence
Used
I'm largely in favor of financial reform.
Fareed Zakaria
Financial
Favor
Reform
Largely
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
Fareed Zakaria
Experience
Writing
Enjoy
Having
Written
Prefer
Much
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