Thomas L. Friedman Quotes

You’ll know the green revolution has been won when the word ‘green’ disappears.

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.

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.