The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I'm not an austere person.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.