Nicholas Kristof

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

— Nicholas Kristof

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

— Nicholas Kristof

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

— Nicholas Kristof

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

— Nicholas Kristof

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Nicholas Kristof

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

— Nicholas Kristof

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to…

— 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

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?

— Nicholas Kristof

The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful…

— 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

I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers,…

— Nicholas Kristof

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

— Nicholas Kristof

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

— Nicholas Kristof

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled.…

— 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

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

In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are…

— 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

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees,…

— 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

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain…

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— 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

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

— Nicholas Kristof

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and…

— Nicholas Kristof

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a…

— Nicholas Kristof

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Nicholas Kristof

There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't…

— 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

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

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Nicholas Kristof