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… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
