C.S. Friedman Quotes

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.

The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a fossil fuel, and because it's still a fossil fuel, it still emits carbon.

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

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

That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.

Everyone needs to get together and say: "Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world."

I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

The best fiction is true.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools

Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

...being a weatherman in Ireland is about the biggest scam going.

We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's.

Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.

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