Years Quotes by Thomas Friedman

9 Years quotes by Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman’s nine brief quotes on years carry his trademark global awareness. He distills complex ideas about change and progress into bite‑size insights, perfect for readers who appreciate a world‑wide lens in a compact format.

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I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

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If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here…

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Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought…

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I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

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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…

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

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If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that…

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You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st…

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I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who…

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

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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,…

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Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of…

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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.…

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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…

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Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy…

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Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

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Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

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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…

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Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

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