138 Quotes by Nicholas Kristof

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.

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

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

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

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

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