There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life… — 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 don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of… — 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
Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do… — 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
What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy… — 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 think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I… — 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
If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share
