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
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
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
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
Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. — 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
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
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
![“Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.” quote by Thomas Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ac/thomas-friedman-1784_asks_some-would-ask-which-country-am-i-from-w_745189.jpg)
