Haiti Quotes:

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

topic: Years, United States, Haiti

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.

topic: Years, United States, Haiti

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

source: "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

topic: Wall, Reality, Haiti, Haitian

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

source: "Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Upon His Historic Return to Haiti". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 22, 2011.

topic: Rights, Citizens, Haiti

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

source: "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

topic: Haiti, Firsts, Election, Democratic Elections

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

source: Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 21, 2011.

topic: I Love You, Haiti, Breathe, Always Love You

- Jean-Claude Duvalier

topic: People, Haiti, Helping, Haitian

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

- Jean-Claude Duvalier

topic: One Day, Haiti

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.

- Katherine Dunham

topic: Done, Haiti, Costumes

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!

- Keith Urban

topic: Asking, Haiti, Red

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.

Haiti is open for business!

source: "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Haiti, Prime, Ministers, Haitian

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

topic: 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.

source: "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Love Is, Haiti, Wanted

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

topic: Country, Opportunity, Haiti, Facilitate

- LeCrae

topic: Struggle, Haiti, Asia

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.

- Madison Smartt Bell

topic: Rose, Events, Haiti

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

- Mark Kurlansky

topic: Haiti, Portraits, Prose

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.

- Michel Martelly

topic: Haiti, Done, Institutions

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

- Michel Martelly

source: "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.

topic: Priorities, Haiti

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.

- Michel Martelly

source: "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.

topic: Haiti, Want, Made

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

- Noah Munck

topic: Heart, World, Haiti

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

- Olivia Wilde

topic: People, Together, Haiti, Desperate Situations

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

- Pat Robertson

topic: Poverty, Haiti, Desperate

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.

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.

topic: Children, Ideas, Haiti, Malawi

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

source: "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

topic: Challenges, Looks, Haiti, Tuberculosis, Cholera

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

topic: Thinking, Haiti, Looking Forward

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

topic: People, Development, Haiti

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.

topic: Country, Done, Haiti, Canaries, Cholera

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

topic: Challenges, Haiti, Disease, Complication, Clinicians

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

topic: Thinking, Rebuilding, Haiti

- Paule Marshall

topic: Voice, Haiti, Found

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

topic: Haiti, Kind

- Jørgen Leth

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Europe, Mind, Haiti

We should be focused on the Haiti earthquake victims, not on what contracts your company should get, if you're a friend of Bill [Clinton].

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Earthquakes, Bills, Haiti

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

- Michele Montas

topic: Numbers, Haiti, Economy, Imports

Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.

- Michele Montas

topic: Haiti, Anarchy

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

- Michele Montas

topic: Independent, Mean, Haiti

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

- Wade Davis

topic: Haiti, Drink, Rum

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.

- Thabo Mbeki

source: "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

topic: Years, Rose, Haiti

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.455, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Haiti, Having Hope, Humans

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

- Donna Karan

source: "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

topic: Way, Dimensions, Haiti, Artisans

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Country, Years, Haiti

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Haiti, Reconstruction, Plans

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

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Obama Leaps into Action on Haiti". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 13, 2010.

topic: Stupid, Haiti, Income

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.

source: Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

topic: Lying, Doe, Haiti

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."

source: Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

topic: People, Haiti, Rich

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.

source: "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

topic: America, People, Haiti

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.

source: Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

topic: Haiti, Boat, Claims

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.

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Organization, Issues, Haiti, Haitian

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.

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Law, Challenges, Haiti