Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

• Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

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• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

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• Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

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• It’s easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

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• It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that’s the case.

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• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

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• 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.

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• I think it’s dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

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• I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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• Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It’s not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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• Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

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• 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.

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• 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 desert at night.

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• Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

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• A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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• A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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Birth:	27th April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist, Journalist

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