The scarcest commodity at this time is time. All the rest money can buy, but money can't buy time.

The rationale for the only recovery plan is to make sure that there is no gap between the end of the relief operation and full-scale reconstruction.

It will help a lot. But we need more, we need much more, and we need it much faster.

The immensity of the disaster is still becoming clearer daily.

The top priority overall is tents and emergency shelter. We need helicopters, a lot of helicopters and all types of helicopters.

Even a generation or two ago, this would have been unthinkable. It's not simply the money involved; it's the time, the devotion. It's bending every activity to the single-minded pursuit of stardom for a child.