Haiti is in desperate poverty.
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.
Haiti fell over? Who built Haiti? Two of the three little pigs?!
You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.