I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am growing. And so this growth is linked to others, or to a collective other. If I realize that I do not love you, my faith diminishes, and I breathe less and less of the oxygen of life. When I feel linked to you, in communion with you, there is a current of love that passes between us, and the intensity can multiply. And the more this love grows, the more the faith becomes luminous, the more I feel linked to the collective other. I am speaking of God.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.