I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
Thomas FriedmanYou 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 toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
Thomas FriedmanIf you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
Thomas FriedmanOptimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas FriedmanAmerica was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.
Thomas Friedman