Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakariais an Indian American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time. He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 January 1964
CityMumbai, India
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Alaska itself is an unusual state.
American influence is not what it used to be.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
I think that liberals need to grow up.
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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.
The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.
Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.