Thomas Friedman Quotes

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

What is China but a people and their stories?

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

I've always been pessimistic about China. I can't see China going on without economic or social issues.

China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

No one has ever understood China.

Today, a socialized China is standing toweringly in the Eastern World

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

I'm no real expert on China.

I've talked to so many people, so many institutions, about how China works.

China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

More people need to inhabit this world.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows.

The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.