152 Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

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

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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

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

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

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.

which is not to pick sides but to explain what I think is happening on the ground. I can't say, 'This is my team and I'm going to root for them no matter what they do.'