Thomas Friedman Quotes

We are in a global competitive world. And in the future it will be even more, and more, and more global.

Globalization punctures borders.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

For the first time in history, a single worldwide economic system has come into being.

Global capitalism means that people are no longer confined by the decisions of national elites. These could be the local monopolies, the local powers, politicians, and so on. By making local powers compete or by bypassing them altogether, globalization gives people more freedom to decide.

We are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

Are we really going to let the world become a global market without any laws except those of the jungle?

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude.

Your friends, through economic mismanagement (see Greece), can harm you faster than your enemies. And your rivals falling (see Russia and China) can be more dangerous than your rivals rising. If Russia, an economy spanning nine time zones, goes into recession and cannot pay foreign lenders with its lower oil revenues — and all this leads to political turmoil and defaults to Western banks — that crash will be felt globally

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.