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. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State. But I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
It’s not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time. Fareed Zakaria Read Quote
