Nicholas D. Kristof Year Quotations

Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

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

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

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

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

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