Haiti Quotations | Page 2

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.

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.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

The cleaning process has started, rapid change to the world will occur, Haiti is the start.

The mentality in Haiti is to only vote for president, but the election for senators and deputies is important too.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

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.

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.

Haiti is open for business!

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

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

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