Top 34 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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