Thomas Friedman Quotes

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

I'm trying to change the world.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

All I want to do is change the world.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

There are reformers in every country.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Governments never lead; they follow progress

The period of radical reform is finished.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.