Nicholas Kristof

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.

— Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such…

— Nicholas Kristof

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.

— Nicholas Kristof

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do.…

— Nicholas Kristof

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a…

— Nicholas Kristof

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a…

— Nicholas Kristof

Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes…

— Nicholas Kristof

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of…

— Nicholas Kristof

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood…

— Nicholas Kristof

I think humanitarian organizations should acknowledge the progress more than they do. I think that one reason people are reluctant to provide…

— Nicholas Kristof

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

— Nicholas Kristof

Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they…

— Nicholas Kristof

In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children…

— Nicholas Kristof

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

— Nicholas Kristof

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government…

— Nicholas Kristof

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

— Nicholas Kristof

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to…

— Nicholas Kristof

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

— Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice…

— Nicholas Kristof

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me…

— Nicholas Kristof

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to…

— Nicholas Kristof

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental…

— Nicholas Kristof

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes…

— Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school…

— Nicholas Kristof