Expectations that Haiti will pull itself up by its bootstraps are unrealistic. Haiti has neither the will nor the straps.
Jocelyn McCalla
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Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you ...
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has do...
MICHEL MARTELLY Inaction can no longer be our policy, ... To do so will ensure that Haiti is ruled by thugs and crim...
BOB GRAHAM But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progre...
DANNY GLOVER All systems are go. This is going to be the best election Haiti has ever had.
GERARD LE CHEVALLIER America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull hi...
RANDI WEINGARTEN We don't feel at this time that Haiti fulfills the very narrow criteria provided by Congress.
DAN KANE U.S. Empire: the Case of Haiti,
BRIAN CONCANNON There's a lot of fear and uncertainty around this election. We hope things will be well, and the peo...
MARLEINE BASTIEN It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacek...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc...
KATHERINE DUNHAM Haiti is full of disappointments,
MIKE DEWINE People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of...
BRUCE ANDERSON The U.S. and the international community has a failed policy in that it has not promoted security an...
LARRY BIRNS In this central plateau of Haiti, there's about 42,000 people affected by this.
DOUG SCHMITT The United States can't ignore Haiti. The two countries are stuck with each other.
JOCELYN MCCALLA I think boomers have very high expectations of what they will inherit and perhaps unrealistic expect...
DANIEL FITZPATRICK I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go h...
TONY CAMPOLO If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourse...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Haiti?s future depends on this vote.
JACQUES BERNARD The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...
JOHN W. GARDNER The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...
JOHN W. GARDNER A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor se...
HENRY KISSINGER the same as Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
ASHLEY JUDD As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional part...
LAURENT LAMOTHE It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
JEAN CLAUDE DUVALIER What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti.
WYCLEF JEAN The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, h...
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
PLATO Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He ...
TRACY KIDDER The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Ha...
BILL GATES A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes ...
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON Baker has a strong radio presence and has run a surprisingly strong campaign in the countryside. But...
DAN ERIKSON Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to de...
CHARLES B. RANGEL In Haiti, we call him our Martin Luther King.
LAVARICE GAUDIN There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI It's unrealistic for people to expect that the resolution will take care of itself. Without an imple...
BARRY LIEBERMAN The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic ...
STAN GOFF Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
PAUL FARMER Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in gene...
DAVID BIRD Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the as...
LAURENT LAMOTHE If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.
DAN ERIKSON If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next gu...
JOHN LEE HANCOCK I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER College is neither good for its own sake nor necessary . . . and that will not be the topic of my pe...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.
EPICURUS I haven't felt this much hope about Haiti in many years.
DUMARSAIS SIMEUS There was a brief moment, after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, when even Bill Clinton recognized what ...
GREG GRANDIN The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cho...
PAUL FARMER At this time we do not believe that Haiti fulfills the narrow criteria established by Congress to qu...
DAN KANE Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the...
ANONYMOUS I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and...
WYCLEF JEAN Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
HELEN FISHER When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long...
A. SALEH Character defects are habits rooted in unrealistic expectations.
JIM GENOVESE Although (the officers who were released) are technically required to remain available to the justic...
BRIAN CONCANNON Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and be...
JIM YONG KIM There is an orderly and constitutional political process under way in Haiti,
RICHARD BOUCHER We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor ...
ARTHUR ERICKSON IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carri...
ROBERT WALPOLE I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it wh...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT There was a sense that there was nothing to learn from Somalia or Haiti or Bosnia.
SETH JONES Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OVID Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in Wor...
IVICA DACIC If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assu...
JOSE RIZAL I recognize the right of people who don't know about Haiti to believe it might not be the case, this...
GERARD LATORTUE None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
THURGOOD MARSHALL And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how...
SCOTT STOSSEL Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of th...
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and p...
PAUL FARMER The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or...
EPICURUS I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
PAUL FARMER I ask all Haitians to work hand-in-hand to bring Haiti forward out of the crisis,
GERARD LATORTUE Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDING Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going...
PEPPER SCHWARTZ I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of...
MADISON SMARTT BELL It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that ca...
ROBERT GIBBS You may make fun of those who are under 6 and over 70 if you will, because they will get neither ang...
VIKRANT PARSAI If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.
THOMAS SHANNON In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Frustration arises from unrealistic expectations.
JIM GENOVESE Frustration comes from unrealistic expectations.
JIM GENOVESE The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Hait...
ERTHARIN COUSIN If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... th...
EVAN MCMULLIN We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent ...
JERRY BRIDGES People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON For neither man nor angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to...
JOHN MILTON If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are...
MOTHER TERESA I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reig...
CAROL GUZY They are out there campaigning and they know there is no chance of prosecution. It's another reason ...
JOANNE MARINER While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, t...
ELIOT ENGEL I think it shows very poor management. It's a real disgrace and an affront to Haiti.
JACK LIEBERMAN Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season o...
VERA NAZARIAN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the glob...
ROBERT S. MCNAMARA A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered nu...
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