I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people.

- Cheryl Mills

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

- Edwidge Danticat

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

- Edwidge Danticat

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

- Edwidge Danticat

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

- Edwidge Danticat

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

- David Petraeus

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.

- Danny Glover

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

- Danny Glover

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

- Daniel Tosh

I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reign.

- Carol Guzy

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.

- Chris Gibson

It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.

- Christy Turlington

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

- Charles B. Rangel

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

- Baldwin Spencer

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

- Bharati Mukherjee

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

- Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

- Bill Gates

Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.

- Anthony Head

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

- Adam Hochschild