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born 1953 United States
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and columnist who joined The New York Times in 1981.
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Also known as: Thomas L. Friedman
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Is that never before in the history of the world have so many people been able to learn about so many other people’s lives, products and ideas.
Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.
What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war.
Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process.
Felix Kramer, who has made plug-in electric cars not only his passion but an imminent American reality, was always ready to take a query from me.
I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.
What Biden is trying to achieve is equivalent of having a Rubic's cube and trying to align all the colors on the same side
Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.… I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.
The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging. When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.
The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.
I think that we're going to know after six to nine months whether this project has any chance of succeeding. In which case, I think the American people as a whole will want to play it out or whether it really is a fool's errand.
China's going to have a free press.... Oh, China's leaders don't know it yet, but they are being pushed straight in that direction.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of this globalization era.... The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together.
Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.
Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months—probably sooner—whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out.
Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Hussein's generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein.
We're at the beginning of, I think, the decisive, I would say, six months in Iraq, OK, because I feel like this election—you know, I felt from the beginning Iraq was going to be ultimately, Charlie, what Iraqis make of it.