Thomas Friedman

I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day,…

— Thomas Friedman

The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially…

— Thomas Friedman

Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that…

— 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

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

— Thomas Friedman

Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on…

— 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

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

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be…

— Thomas Friedman

There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

Water is our next great environmental challenge. It is the new oil. How are we going to preserve this sport unless we…

— Thomas Friedman

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do…

— Thomas Friedman

There is definitely global warming, and man is definitely contributing to it. Go out to, say, Montana and talk to some pretty…

— 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

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

— Thomas Friedman

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up…

— Thomas Friedman

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman