People Quotes by Thomas Friedman

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

— Thomas Friedman

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

— Thomas Friedman

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever…

— Thomas Friedman

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

— Thomas Friedman

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

— Thomas Friedman

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and…

— Thomas Friedman

We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in…

— Thomas Friedman

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That…

— Thomas Friedman

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention…

— Thomas Friedman

What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to…

— Thomas Friedman

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much…

— Thomas Friedman

To me the smart thing that governments in the Middle East would be doing right now is taking their oil and gas…

— Thomas Friedman

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future…

— Thomas Friedman

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than…

— Thomas Friedman

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

I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human…

— Thomas Friedman

I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year…

— Thomas Friedman

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now…

— Thomas Friedman

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

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

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

I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I…

— Thomas Friedman

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and…

— Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of…

— Thomas Friedman

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not…

— Thomas Friedman

When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just…

— Thomas Friedman

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was…

— Thomas Friedman

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about…

— Thomas Friedman

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's…

— Thomas Friedman

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my…

— Thomas Friedman

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are…

— Thomas Friedman

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to…

— Thomas Friedman

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life…

— Thomas Friedman

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the…

— Thomas Friedman

If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this…

— Thomas Friedman

If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people…

— Thomas Friedman

Many of us who grew up playing golf know that our kids aren't doing it. A great way to enhance the game,…

— Thomas Friedman

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

I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I…

— Thomas Friedman

Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe…

— Thomas Friedman