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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

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.

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.

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

The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

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

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

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

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, 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.

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.

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

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

Haiti is open for business!

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

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.

You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody

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.

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

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

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

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

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 was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

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

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

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

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

Haiti fell over? Who built Haiti? Two of the three little pigs?!

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

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

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

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.

I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.