152 Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics.

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.

This should remind us to value the many people whose jobs do not generate huge incomes but are worthwhile, essential, even noble – from scholars and teachers to janitors and street cleaners. The market may not reward them, but we should respect them.

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

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

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.

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.

The basic problem for American workers of all ages has been that their hours and productivity keep rising but their wages do not.

I don’t want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.