108 Quotes by Thomas L. Friedman

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    There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

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    No two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s.

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    If you don’t have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

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    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.

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    Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We’ve charged their future on our Visa cards.

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    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.

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    We’ve given Iraq six months and I don’t think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

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