Mark Schneider Quotations

Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.

Many voters came very early, and some of the centers, particularly the big ones, were overwhelmed. But the patience of the Haitian people is formidable. And the will of the people to vote is truly impressive.

Measuring literacy is a complicated task -- one challenge is that we are testing adults, and you don't find them gathered in classrooms.

I am surprised, honored and humbled to enter the Wall of Fame.

Keeping one hand dry and one hand wet is pretty elementary. Otherwise, you get 'Barney Rubble' fingers.

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

I think that's what we're all trying to gather. We've got one proposed licensee saying, 'We'll give you a free arena,' and another saying, 'I can only give you a first-class casino.' Somewhere in between would be the truth, I think.

I think these results are really unexpected. I think it is a wake-up call to the research and university community.

My client is a medical doctor, practicing in Grafton for the last 10 years. He's an American citizen, he's a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and he was with his 71-year-old, diabetic, really sick sister.

The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation. It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy.

We're trying to keep the doors open here, ... Everybody's been promised this money, but we need it to operate.

There is a danger of Morales becoming more closely tied to both Chavez and Castro. The danger is there, but it's not inevitable.

We've reached a point where the balance now is tilting toward holding the elections. There's less likely to be violence in Haiti's future if they hold elections than if they don't.

This, of course, leads to all kinds of questions about the extent to which choices will increase stratification and gentrification, ... Choosing Schools.

At this point the entire transition is at risk. Drug traffickers don't want a functioning, effective government with a functioning, effective police force and customs. They have their hooks in the police, and they have their hooks in parts of the transitional government.

At this point it would be a very polarizing and divisive event that could fatally damage the effort to move Haiti forward.

Elections are clearly not the whole solution. But you can't get a legitimate government that can begin to deal with Haiti's problems and build something out of this failed state without them.

I've worked in several large companies (e.g., SRI, McGraw-Hill, the United States Postal Service) and never seen anything like it. You couldn't get anything done without filling out a form. There was even a form that you had to fill out when there wasn't any regular form available.

Preval has to turn history upside down in Haiti.

People don't season enough. You season the raw product so it will permeate into the meat.

Anything that says that you've got new money coming in, I think, is a good sign, maybe something that would attract a gaming partner that would make them more competitive.

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

It's not impossible to hold free and fair elections, but it's going to be very dicey.

Even with all the problems, nobody here is saying they want them to leave -- on the left, right, or center. They are needed here not for one year, or two years, but for the next 10 years.

It was a mess at first. But the people were unbelievable. They waited, they were patient, they didn't leave.

Once this is adopted, it would be difficult for the Security Council to turn the other way and to once again close its eyes to flagrant atrocities. We expect this to bring with it early warning systems, so we can prevent a conflict from reaching the point where there would have to be armed intervention.

It's really an outrageous situation, that any U.S. citizen would be treated like that.

You could argue that putting it near the convention center and the two major hotels down there, and the environment of the Strip, would make sense. I don't think that's an idle thought.

You can't govern in Haiti alone. You need sufficient cooperation from the losers so that parliament can function and the government can deal with the fundamental problems that makes Haiti the last on every list of human security issues in the hemisphere.

The jury's out on whether this election can bring Bolivia back from the precipice of national collapse or whether it will generate even more political tension and perhaps a break-up of the country.

The Hispanic scores were somewhat understandable based on the changing demographics. Diversity may lead to more difficulties in education.

The Hispanic population in 2003 is radically different than in 1992, and many of the factors that have changed for Spanish-language immigrants make learning English more difficult. They are arriving later, staying in the U.S. for a shorter period, and fewer are speaking English at home.