Eric Greitens Quotes

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

I am so impressed by UNHCR staff who live and work side by side with the refugees. It's really remarkable.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

… all governments have the moral duty to do everything possible to ensure humanitarian assistance to those suffering because of … conflict, both within and beyond the country’s borders.

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.

The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

The U.K. alone cannot be left to help those who have lost everything.

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.

There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.

I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there.

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

I am thrilled to support World of Children and its superlative efforts to fund changemakers around the world. It's a great privilege to be associated with an organization that recognizes and funds those individuals really working in the trenches, and I look forward to being part of advancing positive change for children everywhere.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Nations put too much effort and money into defending their borders. They know very little about the poverty and the suffering that exist in the countries where those bordering on destitution live. If they would only defend these defenseless people with food, shelter, and clothing, I think the world would be a happier place.

The first law of disaster relief could well read: every political decision has humanitarian consequences, and every humanitarian program has political implications.