Haiti Quotes - Page 2

We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

It makes every Haitian proud to have such a hospital.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.