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
Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with… — 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
All one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or… — 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