161 Quotes by Thomas Friedman

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.

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 to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

I think it's going to be one of the biggest middle-class jobs -- collaborators. Collaborators are people who are good at working as part of global knowledge, manufacturing or supply chains.

JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ... The World is Flat

When the world is flat, all these global institutions are really exposed to any kind of global or Internet campaign that affects their image or brand.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.