Haiti Quotations

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

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of Haiti is to give them homes, food, and jobs. It is heartbreaking to see little children sleeping on the ground in tents made of trash bags. I hope that we can put an end to this type of poverty not only in Haiti, but in the entire world.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.

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

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

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.

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

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

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

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.

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.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

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?

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

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

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!

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.

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.

The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

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 never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

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

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

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

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.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

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

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation 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.

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

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

Many of these reforms are simple and not expensive. But in Haiti or Indonesia you can start a business in January and you might not even finish (registering) until June.

Much of the violence that we see now is being created by the gangs that were once aligned with the Aristide government. Without that factor, Haiti would be much closer to the rule of law and farther away from gang violence. So it's critical for the actors who supported these groups and who supported this violence to be part of ending it.

ignored Haiti the same way he's ignored most of the countries in this hemisphere. ... We should have been engaged over a long period of time, in a serious way, at least through diplomacy, not to allow this to get to a crisis situation where it now is.

Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.

Today, Haiti is a country waiting to be built. The problems are enormous and there is widespread urgency.

Haiti is not the basket case most people make it out to be. Haiti's governments have been basket cases. That's what has held back the people from achieving their potential.

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Our promise to Don is to do our utmost to keep For Haiti With Love rolling in his honor.

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

We'll continue to evaluate his status to determine when his removal to Haiti would be prudent.

We don't feel at this time that Haiti fulfills the very narrow criteria provided by Congress.

Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

With the television highlights package, we will be looking at how best to exploit non-traditional markets and we will be looking at Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas.

We want the will of the Haiti people to be respected.

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

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

We would love to start some sort of association of the arts in Haiti to promote the education of children, who can't otherwise afford it,

Expectations that Haiti will pull itself up by its bootstraps are unrealistic. Haiti has neither the will nor the straps.

This visit underscores the United States' support for timely democratic elections in Haiti in January and solidarity with Haiti's continuing process of political transition and economic reform." ()

What's happening in Haiti is what's happening in Iraq: It's just total chaos, except there are no U.S. troops on the ground.

Everything in Haiti is broken and everything needs fixing. One of the most immediate tasks is reconciliation and dialogue among Haitians.

Everything in Haiti is broken, and everything needs fixing.

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

At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place.

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

These efforts have proved that Taiwan is a true friend of Haiti and have served as 'boosters' helping me to win this presidential election.

Right now, we're working on a script for my life story and two kids coming from Haiti to America. One turns out to be a musician, one is a gangster. That's all I can say.

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

This is not the right moment to leave. It is the moment to stay, to help Haiti go through this transition.

The upcoming presidential elections can result in a new era for Haiti or sink the country into further poverty and violence.

The United States will continue to engage and support the Haitian people in pursuing our mutual interests, which include strengthening democracy, improving respect for human rights, eliminating poverty, stemming the flow of drugs through Haiti to the United States and addressing sources of illegal migration.

Although (the officers who were released) are technically required to remain available to the justice system, it would be easy for them to hide in Haiti or flee abroad. It is unusual in Haiti to grant pre-trial release to defendants held on such serious charges, especially where, as here, the judge has not even questioned all of the witnesses.

There's a lot of fear and uncertainty around this election. We hope things will be well, and the people of Haiti will be safe.

A third of the children die before the age of five in Haiti and a lot of it is related to water illnesses.

It is very good news because we did get the report last week that he was very critical. There has been a community outcry here in Miami to have the prime minister of Haiti free him so he could get adequate care.

It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States.

There was a sense that there was nothing to learn from Somalia or Haiti or Bosnia.

I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.

So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.

At this time we do not believe that Haiti fulfills the narrow criteria established by Congress to qualify for TPS. We are continuing to monitor the situation on the ground. It's still open.

I'm not aware that the government of Haiti is eager or urging Aristide to come back. They've got a democracy to build ... and the future is not the past. Aristide is from the past. We're looking to the future.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.

If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.

I recognize the right of people who don't know about Haiti to believe it might not be the case, this is a personal opinion, but I give you the guarantee it will take place,

I haven't felt this much hope about Haiti in many years.

Inaction can no longer be our policy, ... To do so will ensure that Haiti is ruled by thugs and criminals.

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

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

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The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.