Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedmanis an American journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
independent energy needs
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
believe rest-of-life abortion
What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
oil ties pouring
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
country running kids
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
political world flats
No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.
life success visits-you
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
world flats wells
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
team war cutting
What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.
believe years egypt
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
believe safety people
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
attitude optimism strategy
Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.
stars rocks keys
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
country thinking america
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
done positive-change optimist
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.