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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
Thomas Friedman
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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
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Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
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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.
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I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say Oh, like I said, China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere. I don't see that happening.
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Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
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Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
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Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.
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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.
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To me the smart thing that governments in the Middle East would be doing right now is taking their oil and gas fountain - and the smartest ones are to some degree - and making sure they're investing in their people to unlock their potential - men and women.
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I 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.
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I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.
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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.
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Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
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