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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.

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Cold, Soviet Union, Fell, Barriers

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.

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Doing, Rather, Very, Newsweek

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

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Factory, Largest, Tallest, Singapore

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

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Stories, Which, CNN, Guests

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

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Fact, Could, Hussein, Saddam

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

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Crisis, More, Acute, Trajectory

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

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World, Crisis, General, Employment

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

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Power, World, Creditors, Shifts

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

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Think, Standard, Quoting, Interviewer

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

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Might, Could, Barrel, Protests

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

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Same, Leading, Dominant, Political Power

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

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Economy, Chinese, Still, Consumer

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

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American, Replace, Weight, Consumer

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.

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Two, Scholar, Very, Promises

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.

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Been, Very, Still, Libya

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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Different, Syria, Quite, Libya

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

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Will, Very, Dilemmas, American Companies

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

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Country, Over, United States, Cold War

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

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Reach, Someone, Whenever, Oxygen

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

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Past, Fact, Surely, Affair

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, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

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Envy, Funding, Developments, American Economy

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

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Comforting, Some, Still, Tales

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

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Government, Promoting, Plays, Long-Run

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

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Innovation, Been, Mostly, Growth Rate

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

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Work, Easier, Makes, Technological

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

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Happen, Cultural, Whenever, Societies

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

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Strong, Making, Very, Societies

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

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Waste, Before, Disciplined, Invented

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

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Benefits, Very, Cut, Government Spending

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

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Doing, Private, Built, Entirely

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