I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.
I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?
A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.
I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.
Hamas is a humanitarian organization.
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration do not require any armed forces.
I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.
Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.
For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.