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" There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney. "
Nicholas Kristof
Management
Financial
Politics
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" Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context. "
Nicholas Kristof
Think
College
High
" When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states. "
Nicholas Kristof
Marry
White
Black
" Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. "
Nicholas Kristof
Powerful
Education
Reading
" Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. "
Nicholas Kristof
Civil Rights
Gay
Rights
" Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger zones such as extremely vulnerable coastal zones - from New Jersey to the Philippines. This enormously increases the economic and human costs of hurricanes, rising seas and changing weather patterns. "
Nicholas Kristof
Change
Weather
New
" Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if it used its status to soothe Sunni-Shiite tensions and encourage tolerance. For a time, under King Abdullah, it seemed that the country was trying to reform, but now under King Salman, it has stalled. "
Nicholas Kristof
Time
World
Positive
" A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. "
Nicholas Kristof
American Dream
Education
American
" I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student. "
Nicholas Kristof
Myself
Travel
School
" I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting. "
Nicholas Kristof
Become
I Can
Out
" Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised. "
Nicholas Kristof
Problems
Leaving
Feeling
" One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it. "
Nicholas Kristof
Short
Journalism
People
" One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed. "
Nicholas Kristof
Home
Better
Country
" In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas! "
Nicholas Kristof
Human
Land
Work
" I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money. "
Nicholas Kristof
Government
Money
Business
" The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. "
Nicholas Kristof
Believe
Problem
Injustice
" Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student. "
Nicholas Kristof
Moving
Mother
Education
" Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill. "
Nicholas Kristof
Food
Time
Hot
" Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices. "
Nicholas Kristof
Liberals
Believe
Poverty
" My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States. "
Nicholas Kristof
American
Wife
Father
" Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. "
Nicholas Kristof
Public
Power
Our
" When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner. "
Nicholas Kristof
Gold
Heroes
Star
" Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. "
Nicholas Kristof
Think
Problems
Poverty
" Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence. "
Nicholas Kristof
Africa
Influence
War
" If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president? "
Nicholas Kristof
Advice
Management
Brain
" In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm. "
Nicholas Kristof
Parent
Children
Mother
" What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world. "
Nicholas Kristof
End
Science
Think
" Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places. "
Nicholas Kristof
Escape
Inequality
Time
" The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith. "
Nicholas Kristof
Temple
Place
India
" The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition. "
Nicholas Kristof
Tradition
Great
Numbers
" Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. "
Nicholas Kristof
Selfish
Behavior
Impossible