America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way. Thomas Friedman More Quotes by Thomas Friedman More Quotes From Thomas Friedman What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. Thomas Friedman cutting team war Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people. Thomas Friedman planets information people Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline. Thomas Friedman gasoline-prices kings country Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. Thomas Friedman oil ties would-be 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. Thomas Friedman running country kids When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently. Thomas Friedman fate heart sports The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. Thomas Friedman safari together needs That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers. Thomas Friedman herds diversity source We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand. Thomas Friedman home kids thinking 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. Thomas Friedman college kids school Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards. Thomas Friedman climate one-day kids Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed Thomas Friedman breakthrough bigs needed Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan. Thomas Friedman terrorism als firsts Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby. Thomas Friedman ovation israel years Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world Thomas Friedman desktop world interesting We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that. Thomas Friedman independent energy needs What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth. Thomas Friedman rest-of-life abortion believe Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country. Thomas Friedman cutting summer country There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement. Thomas Friedman parents education teacher children When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo. Thomas Friedman you sky people world
