When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.

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.

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

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.

I believe my past is my strength.

I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn't want me to resign.

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes.

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.