Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

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.

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.

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What, ' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

I’ve got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.

Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.