When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anyti...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been acc...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us,...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McD...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN No one has expressed what is needed better than Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of the L...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the ...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. T...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a ...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wa...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same g...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whol...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more pl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply c...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optim...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online cours...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil co...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative cu...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always e...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achieveme...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that yo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Glo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the wo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big th...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knoc...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who do...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and b...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Interne...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, d...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out s...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put i...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The world became a better place to live in after 11/9 [1989 - fall of Berlin wall] because each outb...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ....
THOMAS FRIEDMAN With $5, you can now buy one share of Citigroup and have enough left over for a bite at McDonald’s...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Think about what they mean for the preservation of language, for preservation of text, for the abili...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I think it's going to be one of the biggest middle-class jobs -- collaborators. Collaborators are pe...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wa...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global sup...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, sha...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to redisc...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tendi...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
THOMAS L. MASSON Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
THOMAS L. HOLDCROFT There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
THOMAS L. MASSON Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
THOMAS L. MASSON Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
THOMAS L. MASSON You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
CRAIG L. THOMAS It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not &...
CRAIG L. THOMAS The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environme...
CRAIG L. THOMAS The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to...
CRAIG L. THOMAS I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troo...
THOMAS L. SMITH In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protectio...
THOMAS L. SMITH When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thou...
THOMAS L. PANGLE [expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that ma...
THOMAS L. PANGLE Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
THOMAS L. MASSON Less costs more
THOMAS L. SCHUMACHER The love game is never called off on account of darkness
THOMAS L. MASSON It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insu...
THOMAS L. SMITH Love is a grindstone whether it grinds us down or polishes us up, depends on us
L. THOMAS HOLDCROFT The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
L. THOMAS HOLDCROFT OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparentl...
NAT FRIEDMAN We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions ...
NAT FRIEDMAN This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, a...
NAT FRIEDMAN Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators...
NAT FRIEDMAN We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the nea...
NAT FRIEDMAN There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Li...
NAT FRIEDMAN It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger ...
NAT FRIEDMAN A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
NAT FRIEDMAN When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
DAVID FRIEDMAN They would need that to compare to the sample to make sure it doesn't belong to the victim.
ALAN FRIEDMAN When you have a badly-written law and a bad policy, it creates execution problems and implementation...
ALAN FRIEDMAN [That means even if you can afford one of these gems, you might have to wait.] A one carat pink can ...
ALAN FRIEDMAN These people were laughing at the system, were terrorizing law abiding citizens, were forcing commun...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Agnelli was a man of the old school. He grew up in an environment where politicians and Fiat could i...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Just having the industrial zones is a step forward. We would've liked to see more areas included. De...
ADAM FRIEDMAN It was the perfect choice because all the parts are written for kids and teens.
ADAM FRIEDMAN Unlike other programs, our cast is always made up of the students involved in the show. We don?t bri...
ADAM FRIEDMAN I want to make sure the children have as professional an experience as possible. Preparing them for ...
ADAM FRIEDMAN So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilitie...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by sma...
DAVID FRIEDMAN Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”

If there was an award for understatement, I th...
C.S. FRIEDMAN The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Life is the messy bits.
LISE FRIEDMAN The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the ma...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th...
MILTON FRIEDMAN A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Und...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
SHELBY FRIEDMAN Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devote...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!
SHELBY FRIEDMAN There was a time when we the U.S. had completely unrestricted immigration, when anybody could come t...
MILTON FRIEDMAN What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
MILTON FRIEDMAN What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a respon...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
MILTON FRIEDMAN Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
KINKY FRIEDMAN An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls ...
JACLYN FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
KINKY FRIEDMAN We definitely are a supporter of lowering corporate income tax and managing through the reprehension...
ADENA FRIEDMAN I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out i...
DAVID FRIEDMAN So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN There's no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
KINKY FRIEDMAN I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, b...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.
KINKY FRIEDMAN How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people with an agenda.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
KINKY FRIEDMAN May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me an...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
KINKY FRIEDMAN If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never ...
KINKY FRIEDMAN The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new ...
ADENA FRIEDMAN The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It sho...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mis...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselv...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shorta...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is taxation without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the mome...
RACHELLE FRIEDMAN We're counting on him to be a productive member of our bullpen.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We'll continue talks with [them]. This doesn't necessarily shut the door on their future with the Ra...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're happy to come to terms with Toby. He's an instrumental part of what we're trying to do as we d...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're getting really close to obtaining the support we need.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN He understands what it takes to make a team successful.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know wh...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field t...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We were seeing situations when, even after they reported hazardous conditions and violations were is...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN