Fareed Zakaria

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

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.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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

Culture follows power.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.