192 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

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

Random violence is incredibly infectious

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

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

Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.