Top 34 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

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.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

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

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

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

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.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

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

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

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