Fareed Zakaria

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#international-relations #national-policy #theology

Alaska itself is an unusual state. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#itself #state #unusual

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#economic future #fiscal #fiscal house #future #going

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#comforting #confronting #conservatives #fairy #fairy tales

Culture follows power. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#follows #power

American influence is not what it used to be. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#influence #used

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#am #american #became #because #birth

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

— Fareed Zakaria

#gloom #i #paint #picture #total

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

#growing #much #rest #shape #states