Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

If One Is Talking To A Finance Minister Of A Poor Country, Moral Arguments Tend Not To Get Very Far. But If You Can Argue That Their Country Is Going To Grow 2 Percent Faster Per Year If They Can Just Harness The Power Of The Female Half Of The Population More Effectively, That Is An Argument They Consider.

China Was Probably The Worst Place In The World To Grow Up Female 100 Years Ago. There Was Foot Binding, Female Infanticide, Concubinage, And Child Marriage, And Now It's One Of The Better Places. So I Really Do Feel That We're On The Right Side Of History Here.

In Much Of The World, The Most Dangerous Thing A Woman Can Do Is Become Pregnant.

It's Important Not To Demonize [donald's] Trump Voters.

One Of The Principles Of Journalism Is You Don't Lie. You Never Lie.

Usually People Are Very Much Focused On Keeping Their Kids Alive.

I Think It's Dangerous To Be Optimistic.

You Could Perhaps Better Tell The Story Of A Place By Writing Of A Tiny Village As A Sort Of Prism Into The Bigger Issues The Culture Was Facing. It Struck Me As A Better Way To Learn About A Place, Or At Least A Different Way, Than Just Going To Interview The President. So I Have Often Tried To Tell The Story Of A Place Through People There. But I'm Just Amazed.

Write Letters To Your Editors, Write To Your Members Of Congress, And Write To Your News Stations.

The News Media's Silence, Particularly Television News, Is Reprehensible.

I Think When Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Are On The Line, You Might Have To Set Aside Some Principles.

Guilt-tripping People Does Not Work; They Tend To Be Turned Off.