Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

A little bit of attention can go a long way.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Long, Attention, Bit

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Women, Die, Around

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Watch, Judged, Genocide

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Silence, Able, Might

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Few, Countries, Mortality

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Husband, Nothing, Night

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Age, Children, Die

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Through, Place, Tell

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
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Wrong, Dangerous, Optimistic

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Become, Quite, Name

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Blame, Keep, Easy

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Food, Help, Small

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Bad, Water, Dying

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Health, Left, Nor

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Care, Poor, Nor

Random violence is incredibly infectious.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Violence, Random, Infectious

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Nicholas D. Kristof

After, Tend, Bulk

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
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Seeing, Conflict, Month

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Travel, Talk, Fact

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Pet, Food, Year

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Why, Might, Ourselves

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Angry, While, President

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Change, Positive, Government

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Politics, Care, Poor

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Job, Someone, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 27, 1959

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