Fareed Zakaria Quotes

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

To the world, you are America.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

America is good enough for us.

As globalization proceeds, tribalism increases.

Don't sell America short.

We must save America from the missionary idea that you must get the whole world on to the American way of life. This is really a big world danger.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know America is better than every other country.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The break with and the rejection of Europe, decisive in the making of the American people, did not take place in Canada. In the formative period of Canadian history the immigrant's arrival in North America represented not a rejection of Europe and its values but an affirmation of them. This is the deepest and most meaningful difference between Canada and the United States.

I love Europe, but I don't want America to become like Europe.

Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.

America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it's the bully that fronts to know war and democracy like none other, therefore leading the global arbitration on both fronts.

The United States is the greatest country on Earth.

In America, they don't need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don't need to look elsewhere for rappers with weird accents that they have to get accustomed to, which is like homework to them.

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally powerful societies.

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is lampooned. It is impugned. It is attacked. The effort to globalize our society and make us feel, as many of us as possible, that there's nothing special about being an American, that we ought to think of ourselves as citizens of the world, and in that context America is a problem because we have too much, we've done too much, we owe too much, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.