138 Quotes by Nicholas Kristof

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.