All Thomas Friedman Quotes
- You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears. Been
- The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a… Argues
- There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you… Able
- You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the… Baghdad
- By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and… American
- I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game.… Attack
- It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have… Allowed
- Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard… Allows
- The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population… All
- We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you… Benign
- America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a… America
- Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. Accomplished
- Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can… All
- Some would ask what country am I from? We ara supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana,… Ask
- So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you… Achieve
- At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… Air
- Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these… America
- The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves.… Countries
- In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. America
- When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. Any