Fareed Zakaria

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”