I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

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

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

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

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.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.