In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention.… — 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
