Quotes from Fareed Zakaria

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.

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

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

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.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

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.

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 situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Culture follows power.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

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

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.

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

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

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

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

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.

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

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

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.

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