108 Quotes by Thomas L. Friedman

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it – economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children – they grab on to that and don’t want to give it up.

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

America needs rebooting.

Hope and optimism aren’t just attitudes, they are life strategies.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today’s system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

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

C’mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president’s office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college’s board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor – in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.