Top 34 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

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

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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

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

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

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

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.

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.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

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.