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

A little bit of attention can go a long way.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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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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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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas D. Kristof

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas D. Kristof

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
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Random violence is incredibly infectious.
Nicholas D. Kristof

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
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