“A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.” WayShouldCoursesEnergyGolfZeroAspireGolf CourseLeading The Way Author:Thomas Friedman
“We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksProblemUnderstandingGrowthGoneSolutionsFuelExpensiveToxicBenignInexpensive Author:Thomas Friedman
“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.” WayLittlesCountryEnergyLinesCuttingPolicyTaxesSummerDecidedSeasonsClintonChinaShipsOur CountryGasPushingCentsTanksArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisMccainGasolineGallonsEnergy PolicyMoney Laundering Author:Thomas Friedman
“What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy future, not a dead end. To get this right, to get the most out of it, we not only have to make sure we exploit natural gas in a clean way - it's a challenge - but we also have to make sure that we are instilling and implementing all the incentives to win solar, nuclear energy efficiency that will make them continually competitive with natural gas in the future.” WayWantEndsWinningEnergyNaturalChallengesCleanNuclearBridgesGasEfficiencyIncentivesExploitsCleanersDead EndsDamsNatural GasImplementingNuclear EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:Thomas Friedman
“America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.” WayAmericaMiddleEastReformMiddle EastStable Author:Thomas Friedman
“I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated, where women are assuming new roles, where young people want to be consulted and participate. I think the trick is to open up, move down the path of reform, do it in a way that is consistent with your own society's stability and culture, and just don't think you can do nothing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTogetherMovingYoungCultureCan DoRolesPathAssumingTricksReformConsistentFlatsStabilityStatus QuoIntegrated Author:Thomas Friedman
“I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who can be the first to say the Arab Spring is going to fail. Everyone says, "I told you so, I told you so about the Muslim Brotherhood." I have no desire to tell anyone anything. I don't know. I'm just listening, watching. It may turn out all these people are right, they may be wrong. They may be right this year and wrong next year, by the way. I'm just trying to listen day to day, figure it out.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsFirstsKindMayMightDesireTurnsNextFailingFiguresListeningSpringCompetitionHumbleBrotherhoodDay To DayNext YearJust ListenArab SpringMuslim BrotherhoodTold You So Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."” PeopleThinkingWayWantTryingImportantAmericaPresidentInfluenceDramaSpringIraqCarefulExtremesBarackRelateRisingOver ItBootsVery DeepPresident Barack ObamaRising UpArab Spring Author:Thomas Friedman
“If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.” IfsWayWantYearsMadeRunningAbleSchoolFormOpportunityPresidentSimpleFourPromiseSkillsHigh SchoolAccessCampaignsIncomePostsGapsPresident ObamaFour YearsGraduatesI PromiseSecondary Education Author:Thomas Friedman
“The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.” PeopleIfsWayYearsFactsTodayJobsCollegeDegreesRateUnemploymentSwitchingCollege DegreeUnemployment Rate Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansCountryWould BeYoungJusticeAppreciateDignityLongingDrivenAwakeningAspirationSyriaEgyptImmuneArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisLibyaYemenTunisia Author:Thomas Friedman
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayStoriesHomeKidsScientistClimate ChangeConcreteWrong Direction Author:Thomas Friedman
