Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.
Thomas FriedmanI firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
Thomas FriedmanYou win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
Thomas FriedmanThe ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
Thomas FriedmanI don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.
Thomas Friedman