--- title: "14 States Quotes By Fareed Zakaria" description: "14 States quotes by Fareed Zakaria. Plus more from Fareed Zakaria and more States sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/fareed-zakaria-3805_alaska_alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state-885875_885875.png" --- > [Alaska itself is an unusual state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/fareed-zakaria-3805_alaska_alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state-885875_885875.png) > [ My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, \[but\] I don’t see how that would be much different from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secretary-of-state-but-i-don-t-see/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/fareed-zakaria-3805_different_my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secre_2208810.png) > [If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world-growing-the-united-states/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/fareed-zakaria-3805_economics_if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world_2129875.png) > [The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/the-great-drama-of-russian-history-has-been-between-its-state-and/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/fareed-zakaria-3805_drama_the-great-drama-of-russian-history-has-b_2279584.jpg) > [During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/during-the-cold-war-we-were-interested-because-we-were-scared-that/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8d/fareed-zakaria-3805_became_during-the-cold-war-we-were-interested-b_2631640.png) > [The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/the-united-states-is-going-to-be-a-rich-country-it-is-going-to-be/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/fareed-zakaria-3805_able_the-united-states-is-going-to-be-a-rich_2387255.png) > [The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/the-united-states-needs-serious-change-in-its-fiscal-entitlement/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/fareed-zakaria-3805_change_the-united-states-needs-serious-change-i_1605102.png) > [We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/we-all-accuse-vladimir-putin-of-cold-war-nostalgia-but-washington-s/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/fareed-zakaria-3805_challenges_we-all-accuse-vladimir-putin-of-cold-war_2729118.png) > [Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/religions-are-vague-of-course-this-means-that-they-are-easy-to-follow/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/fareed-zakaria-3805_bishops_religions-are-vague-of-course-this-means_2837581.png) > [France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/france-placed-the-state-above-society-democracy-above/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/fareed-zakaria-3805_america_france-placed-the-state-above-society-de_1278008.png) > [As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/as-the-united-states-continues-its-slow-but-steady-recovery-from-the/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0f/fareed-zakaria-3805_austerity_as-the-united-states-continues-its-slow_1314889.jpg) > [America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/america-washes-its-dirty-linen-in-public-when-scandals-such-as-this/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/fareed-zakaria-3805_accountability_america-washes-its-dirty-linen-in-public_2015921.png) > [ On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, \[Bush's\] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/on-almost-every-issue-involving-postwar-iraq-bush-s-assumptions-and/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/fareed-zakaria-3805_arrogance_on-almost-every-issue-involving-postwar_732226.png) > [Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/generations-from-now-when-historians-write-about-these-times-they/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/fareed-zakaria-3805_america_generations-from-now-when-historians-wri_953399.png) ## Other authors on States ## More by Fareed Zakaria > [I grew up in Mumbai.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/i-grew-up-in-mumbai/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/the-political-history-of-the-twentieth-century-is-the-story-of/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/no-successful-political-transition-can-take-place-without-leaders-and/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/for-years-many-in-the-oil-rich-states-argued-that-their-enormous/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/it-all-looks-american-because-america-the-country-that-invented-mass/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/if-you-listen-to-the-political-discourse-in-america-today-you-would/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/thanks-to-the-communist-party-of-china-we-now-know-the-path-to/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/i-very-much-want-to-be-in-the-business-of-creating-content-of-doing/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/it-s-not-possible-for-two-countries-to-be-the-leading-dominant/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/some-have-said-that-the-clash-between-catholicism-and-protestantism/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/i-am-an-american-not-by-accident-of-birth-but-by-choice-i-voted-with/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [“What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/what-we-need-in-politics-today-is-not-more-democracy-but-less/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/we-have-the-leading-companies-and-the-leading-sectors-in-the-advanced/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/what-we-see-today-is-an-american-economy-that-has-boomed-because-of/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) > [If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/if-a-senator-calls-me-up-and-asks-me-what-should-we-do-in-iraq-i-m/) [Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/fareed-zakaria/#itemlist", "name": "14 States Quotes By Fareed Zakaria", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Alaska itself is an unusual state.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fareed Zakaria" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/fareed-zakaria-3805_alaska_alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state-885875_885875.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/fareed-zakaria-3805_alaska_alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state-885875_885875.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/fareed-zakaria-3805_alaska_alaska-itself-is-an-unusual-state-885875_885875.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Alaska itself is an unusual state.” — Fareed Zakaria", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fareed Zakaria" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secretary-of-state-but-i-don-t-see/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/fareed-zakaria-3805_different_my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secre_2208810.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/fareed-zakaria-3805_different_my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secre_2208810.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/fareed-zakaria-3805_different_my-friends-all-say-i-m-going-to-be-secre_2208810.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different…” — Fareed Zakaria", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fareed Zakaria" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world-growing-the-united-states/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/fareed-zakaria-3805_economics_if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world_2129875.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/fareed-zakaria-3805_economics_if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world_2129875.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/fareed-zakaria-3805_economics_if-we-didn-t-have-the-rest-of-the-world_2129875.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than…” — Fareed Zakaria", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. 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They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. 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This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. 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