Haiti Quotes

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.

As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Haiti is open for business!