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
Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought… — 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
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce. — 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
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
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive… — 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
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
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 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
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
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year… — 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
