Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands… I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When people get frustrated, it's when they feel they are living in a context that deprives them of dignity, deprives them of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices.… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
