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Fareed Zakaria quotes about today

American Journalist January 20, 1964

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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... Fareed Zakaria
Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he translates strength into right and obedience into duty". Only democracy has that authority in the world today. Fareed Zakaria
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
In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes. Fareed Zakaria
If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others. Fareed Zakaria
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
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
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. Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria quote: "What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less."
What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less. Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria quote: "If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United..."
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

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