Fareed Zakaria

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

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

“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.”

“I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.”

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

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

“I'm largely in favor of financial reform.”

“I grew up in Mumbai.”

“The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.”

“The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.”

“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.”

“If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.”

“Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.”

“Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.”

“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.”

“Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.”

“I think that liberals need to grow up.”