192 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program.

Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.

The degree to which these people were willing to share the little they had, did make me feel rather guilty about not doing more for them.

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

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.

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