Thomas Friedman citations (32 citations)

A Manifesto for the Fast World, New York Times, March 28, 1999, 2010-06-28 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/a-manifesto-for-the-fast-world.html, <br class="br">http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/172/29945.html

“I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.”

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Today, March 2, 2006
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“Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Hussein's generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein.”

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The World; A Rising Sense That Iraq's Hussein Must Go, New York Times, July 7, 1991, 2008-01-13 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDC1530F934A35754C0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all,

“We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together.”

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Face the Nation, December 18, 2005
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“The next six months in Iraq — which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there — are the most important six months in U. S. foreign policy in a long, long time.”

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New York Times (30 November 2003) "The Chant Not Heard".
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“The only thing I am certain of is that in the wake of this election, Iraq will be what Iraqis make of it — and the next six months will tell us a lot. I remain guardedly hopeful.”

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New York Times (2 December 2005) "The Measure of Success".
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“One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.”

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The New York Times, September 8, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html.

“Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months — probably sooner — whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out.”

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Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 11, 2006
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“I think we're in the end-game now…. I think we're in a six-month window here where it's going to become very clear and this is all going to pre-empt, I think, the next congressional election — that's my own feeling — let alone the presidential one.”

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Meet the Press, September 25, 2005
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“Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.”

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New York Times (28 November 2004) "The Last Mile".
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“I think that we're going to know after six to nine months whether this project has any chance of succeeding. In which case, I think the American people as a whole will want to play it out or whether it really is a fool's errand.”

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The Oprah Winfrey Show, January 23, 2006
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“After two years of traveling almost exclusively to Western Europe and the Middle East, Poland feels like a geopolitical spa. I visited here for just three days and got two years of anti-American bruises massaged out of me. Get this: people here actually tell you they like America -- without whispering. What has gotten into these people? Have all their subscriptions to Le Monde Diplomatique expired? Haven't they gotten the word from Berlin and Paris? No, they haven't. In fact, Poland is the antidote to European anti-Americanism. Poland is to France what Advil is to a pain in the neck. Or as Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins foreign affairs specialist, remarked after visiting Poland: "Poland is the most pro-American country in the world -- including the United States."”

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"Where U.S. Translates As Freedom" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/opinion/where-us-translates-as-freedom.html (28 December 2003), The New York Times

“We're at the beginning of, I think, the decisive, I would say, six months in Iraq, OK, because I feel like this election — you know, I felt from the beginning Iraq was going to be ultimately, Charlie, what Iraqis make of it.”

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Charlie Rose, December 20, 2005
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“I think we're in the end game there, in the next three to six months, Bob. We've got for the first time an Iraqi government elected on the basis of an Iraqi constitution. Either they're going to produce the kind of inclusive consensual government that we aspire to in the near term, in which case America will stick with it, or they're not, in which case I think the bottom's going to fall out.”

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Unidentified CBS program (31 January 2006), quoted in American Armageddon (2008) by Craig Unger.
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“The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. […] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.”

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Thomas Friedman livre The Lexus and the Olive Tree

[The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, 1st edition, May 2, 2000, Anchor, ISBN 0-3854-9934-5, The Golden Straitjacket]