I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.