Nicholas Kristof

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave…

— Nicholas Kristof

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive…

— Nicholas Kristof

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

— Nicholas Kristof

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate…

— Nicholas Kristof

I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet…

— Nicholas Kristof

Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of…

— Nicholas Kristof

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much…

— Nicholas Kristof

I was the first blogger on the Times's website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted an outlet for the…

— Nicholas Kristof

What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in…

— Nicholas Kristof

Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if…

— Nicholas Kristof

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in…

— Nicholas Kristof

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and…

— Nicholas Kristof

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are…

— Nicholas Kristof

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national…

— Nicholas Kristof

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than…

— Nicholas Kristof

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should…

— Nicholas Kristof

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are…

— Nicholas Kristof

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way…

— Nicholas Kristof

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a…

— Nicholas Kristof

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer…

— Nicholas Kristof

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the…

— Nicholas Kristof

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are…

— Nicholas Kristof

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be…

— Nicholas Kristof

Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.

— Nicholas Kristof

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

— Nicholas Kristof