Quotes from Fareed Zakaria

For the twentieth century, the great political debate was about the size and role of government in the economy—the quantity of government. But what seems to have mattered most in this crisis was the quality of government.

That raises the most serious threat to the liberal international order—which is not China's expansionism but America's abdication. The architect of this system is rapidly losing interest in its own creation.

What, then, is the best course for the real experts? To help the public understand how their field works, in particular how science works.

The issue is not the issue," meaning the real conflict is not over any particular matter or dispute. "The issue is power.

Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place.

Only 13% of people in households making over $100,000 were laid off or furloughed, compared with 39% in households making less than $40,000.

Olmsted, captured the prevailing wisdom, writing in 1870 that "air is disinfected by sunlight and foliage

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." That

King Lear, having been in power for decades, can no longer hear anything but flattery, banishing the one person—his own daughter Cordelia—who dares to speak to him truthfully.

There is a larger critique of markets, though, that goes beyond economics. Market-centric thinking has invaded every area of human life, leaving little space for other values like fairness, equality, or intrinsic value.

In the 1970s, as inflation took off and growth slowed, Western societies seemed to have fallen victim to excessive state intervention in the economy, embracing wage and price controls and other supposed remedies that only made things worse.

Denmark's taxes add up to 45% of its GDP, whereas in the United States the figure is 24%. And Denmark doesn't just tax the rich. Like other European countries, Denmark collects a large part of its revenues from a national sales tax. Its sales tax rate is 25%, in line with the European Union's overall average of 20%.

The health-care system in the United States is a vast, complex, and expensive one, but it responds to market incentives.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

Doctors must spend large amounts of time making the business end of their practice work, giving priority to the procedures that generate the most revenue. Hospitals are run like hotels, aiming to fill their beds and leave little spare capacity.

Yet bringing on new coworkers, and establishing trust and teamwork with them, is extremely hard to achieve on video.

When you teleconference, you are spending social capital rather than building it.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas.

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.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.