Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”

“The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.”

“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.”

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