Jan Egeland quote: "In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread at...
JAN EGELAND

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN ag...
JAN EGELAND

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports...
JAN EGELAND

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have bee...
JAN EGELAND

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - on...
JAN EGELAND

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its c...
JAN EGELAND

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incompreh...
JAN EGELAND

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system tha...
JAN EGELAND

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very...
JAN EGELAND

One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border.
JAN EGELAND

I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster t...
JAN EGELAND

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed mili...
JAN EGELAND

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,
JAN EGELAND

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.
JAN EGELAND

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.
JAN EGELAND

I think that is stingy, really.
JAN EGELAND

We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.
JAN EGELAND

We are working to move from lottery to predictability so that all those who suffer receive aid.
JAN EGELAND

I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
JAN EGELAND

one of the world's most neglected crises.
JAN EGELAND

We must end this tyranny of silence.
JAN EGELAND

It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian work...
JAN EGELAND

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is very serious. The need for international aid is big and gr...
JAN EGELAND

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As...
JAN EGELAND

Many families are still not in permanent housing and now it's rainy season,
JAN EGELAND

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,
JAN EGELAND

Too often, aid resembles a lottery, in which a few win, but most lose, based on considerations other...
JAN EGELAND

This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An ea...
JAN EGELAND

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitar...
JAN EGELAND

We have to date received no pledges.
JAN EGELAND

It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian work...
JAN EGELAND

However, air drops are being undertaken,
JAN EGELAND

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the...
JAN EGELAND

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective e...
JAN EGELAND

My heart goes out to the children of North Korea.
JAN EGELAND

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.
JAN EGELAND

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.
JAN EGELAND

I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.
JAN EGELAND

We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue ...
JAN EGELAND

I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger an...
JAN EGELAND

This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed...
JAN EGELAND

We need a change in mentality. You get a lot of headlines for foodstuffs for those who are already i...
JAN EGELAND

Through snow covered forests of spirited dreams nourished to life by crystalline streams. Jan of ...
JAN

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
JAN KARON

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proo...
JAN BREWER

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human ...
JAN CHIPCHASE

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa...
JAN BERRY

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
JAN MASARYK

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.
JAN JANSEN

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ...
JAN CARLZON

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well h...
JAN PATOCKA

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
JAN ZAMOISKI

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't he...
JAN CARLZON

Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a sup...
JAN CARLZON

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes
JAN MASARYK

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
JAN ZAMOISKI

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I wo...
JAN HUS

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million ill...
JAN BREWER

I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.
JAN FIELDS

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care ...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
JAN KARON

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
JAN KOUM

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expe...
JAN HUS

I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be," he said softly.
JAN HOLLY

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by...
JAN HUS

For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal ...
JAN HUS

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that the...
JAN HUS

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we canno...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the...
JAN BREWER

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
JAN GARBAREK

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of cou...
JAN CHIPCHASE

Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like tha...
JAN KOUM

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossi...
JAN MORRIS

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is ta...
JAN MORRIS

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, li...
JAN HUS

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remark...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnog...
JAN CHIPCHASE

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had fr...
JAN KOUM

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi ins...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you...
JAN KARON

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 perc...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
JAN KOUM

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some po...
JAN KOUM

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married w...
JAN CHIPCHASE

Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy, ...
JAN STRUTHER

Christmas Eve High o'er the lonely hills black turns to gray, Bird-song the valley fills, mists fol...
JAN STRUTHER

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies i...
JAN MORRIS

When I'm having trouble loving someone I mentally regress him to baby state. -Jan Gopal-.
JAN GOPAL

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the pr...
JAN GLIDWELL

I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hi...
JAN AZAR

But she's got to lead us.
JAN AZAR

I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.
JAN AZAR

They played like seniors at the end, and we've got to make sure they continue to do that throughout ...
JAN AZAR

Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer u...
JAN ADAMS

It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.
JAN ADAMS

We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and...
JAN ADAMS

It's like a train wreck. They can't look away.
JAN ADAMS

We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we cou...
JAN ADAMS

If (union members) were going to end up paying so much more into the retirement plan or the health i...
JAN ADAMS

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don...
JAN CHIPCHASE

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my w...
JAN KARON

Easter is never deserved.
JAN KARON

What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incr...
JAN MORAN

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate th...
JAN HUS

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the pr...
JAN GLIDEWELL

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closin...
JAN MYRDAL

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
JAN MCKEITHEN

It's so disturbing that someone could be so bold and desperate that they needed to do that.
JAN BIEBER

But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.
JAN PRONK

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the...
JAN KOUM

Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios betw...
JAN CHIPCHASE

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all...
JAN KOUM

As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu...
JAN VOGLER

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon wou...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.
JAN MILLER

We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's...
JAN BREWER

Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad b...
JAN KOUM

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stu...
JAN KOUM

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servan...
JAN HUS

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you l...
JAN BREWER

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oi...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the ro...
JAN VOGLER

A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They los...
JAN KOUM

From what I do know, outsourcing in the Andean region is a way to avoid congressional oversight and ...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would ...
JAN KARON

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that G...
JAN BREWER

I have a pretty good record of winning in court.
JAN BREWER

We believe there is a real shortage of treatment programs for people with mental health illness. To ...
JAN EUSTIS

Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world...
JAN KOUM

Most historians consider ladies teas to be the foundation of what would eventually become the suffra...
JAN KNOWLES

I'm averaging somewhere around 21 and a half, which is disappointing considering the window sticker ...
JAN ROBERTS

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
JAN KOUM

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
JAN KOUM

We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.
JAN CALDWELL

I am here again, in a familiar place feeling something I've felt before, wondering why it's still he...
JAN DENISE

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with impr...
JAN GARBAREK

I saw some soldiers lying on the ground. There were a lot of civilians as well who were being taken ...
ABDULLAH JAN

Everyone, including the Americans, helped a lot. But we just want to get back and restore our old li...
ABDULLAH JAN

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books t...
JAN KARON

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devasta...
JAN BREWER

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
JAN HAMMER

For the first two years, we prepared all the documents, re-arranged our operating structure and defi...
JAN SMITH

Erasers would taste good with this sauce.
JAN STERLING

I've been getting rid of some clutter anything that doesn't serve a positive purpose in my life �...
JAN DENISE

It's easy for me to have a relationship with God. I know I can trust him ... to be there, to do the ...
JAN DENISE

Anytime I am looking to somebody else as my source, I'm coming from scarcity. I am no longer trustin...
JAN DENISE

We certainly have families in Pike County living without electricity, without running water, in inad...
JAN BLEICH

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the...
JAN BREWER

And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot s...
JAN BREWER

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as dr...
JAN BREWER

Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?...
JAN KOUM

WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful an...
JAN KOUM

If they get close to one another, material can transfer and the angular momentum from one system can...
JAN HOLLIS

it is crucial that Palestinians and Israelis cooperate to the fullest extent possible.
JAN ELIASSON

From what we saw at the summit, Merkel played a constructive role, not only for Poland but over all ...
JAN TRUSZYNSKI

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and...
JAN HATZIUS

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the in...
JAN KOUM

The business case for manufacturing in Brazil is not about optimizing labor costs but about getting ...
JAN LINDHOLM

I'm used to fixing stuff. I'm not used to begging for money. It chokes me.
JAN CALDWELL

We have the same questions about that as well.
JAN CALDWELL

It's very clear in here that it's a woman forcibly assaulted by a man.
JAN CALDWELL

She's had a good night's sleep (and) some food (and) is rested. (She was) reunited with (her) mom th...
JAN CALDWELL

White collar cases are always convoluted. They're very complex and this is basically conspiracy and ...
JAN CALDWELL

I think we are going to see the kind of nominee we should have gotten in the first place: someone wi...
JAN LARUE

That's one of the beauties of the organization. You put it on the shelf until you need it.
JAN HIBBARD

The general intent of the MSA was to limit exposure and we've complied by pulling our ads off taxis,...
JAN SMITH

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.
JAN BREWER

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud ...
JAN MASARYK

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same th...
JAN GARBAREK

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
JAN KARON

What he did was sensational.
JAN ULLRICH

I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will ...
JAN ULLRICH

It was a bad day and I knew it from the first climb in Aspin, ... I'm going to keep fighting because...
JAN ULLRICH

I want to wear yellow in Paris in July and I reckon I am on the right track,
JAN ULLRICH

It's a lot more open without Armstrong. I really have to be careful that I have everything in hand. ...
JAN ULLRICH

It's done very delicately, and it's on their level so they can understand it.
JAN HUETTNER

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY

4427Our Mind need relax to reach goals.
JAN JANSEN

[But yesterday's response to the nominee left that open to doubt. There was widespread dissent among...
JAN LARUE

If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could hav...
JAN HOLLY

If you have cold or flu symptoms, you can't donate because you don't want those viruses to be transm...
JAN GORDON

Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws...
JAN POTOCKI

If the roof had collapsed an hour earlier then there would have been a massacre. Among the injured, ...
JAN PANEK

Sadly, since last year's first memorial service, 14 police officers in Great Britain and Northern Ir...
JAN BERRY

It's very small it's about the size of a hard match book box and you skim a credit card through it. ...
JAN QUINTRALL

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You h...
JAN KOUM

It was a very good start. She started the season 6-0, and now we're hoping she can finish without a ...
JAN BROGAN

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to...
JAN HUS

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a l...
JAN BREWER

[Sentinel Hill resident Jan Johnson echoed Ward's sentiment.] It feels extremely negligent, ... Many...
JAN JOHNSON

There is a lot of Australia and New Zealand pride around here.
JAN HARDESTY

It will be a major infusion to the hospitality industry.
JAN HARDESTY

It's just the way Ellen does things.
JAN HARDESTY

It does an awful lot to make it an attractive area. There's a definite correlation between business ...
JAN HARDESTY

The mayor's race is really what drives people to come out to the polls, and without it, it's hard to...
JAN HARDESTY

It's not a behavioral-synthesis tool, but it is more intelligent than just a translator.
JAN DECALUWE

Now we're just looking for the ceiling.
JAN STUART

While no member state has got everything it argued for, the text before you is balanced, strong and ...
JAN ELIASSON

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland

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