When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
