Fareed Zakaria Quotes

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Good is not good when better is expected.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

People seem to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And unfortunately, it is also the definition of Canadian politics.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

Our party has stagnated while working underground.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

Over my career, I'd watched senior leader visits have unintended negative consequences. Typically, schedules were unrealistically overloaded and were modified during the visit to cancel parts of the plan.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

If you listen to Hillary 30 years ago and Hillary today, she's still complaining about the same things. She's still promising to fix the same things. She's still suggesting we need to address the same things. It tells me that in 30 years, she has not solved anything. In 30 years, she hasn't fixed anything. In 30 years, she hasn't made anything better.

No change, no chance.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.