George Clooney Quotes

While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

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

Libya is a huge disaster.

Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

The Islamic Arab agenda is the cause of the [civil] war and the cause of the suffering. It is a choice between slavery and freedom. What is life worth to be at peace when you are a slave in your own country? …. The engine which drives the war is injustice.

I cannot bear to see my innocent people suffer any longer. Ending the war is the only way to restore world peace and to relieve the nation from the terrible distress with which it is burdened.

Genocide and oppression not confined to the pages of history or memorials like Yad Vashem. They are taking place today, in our world. Nearly half a million black Africans have died in Sudan's Darfur region, systematically targeted for murder, rape, or displacement by government-backed Arab "Janjaweed" militias, simply because of their race. This is a genocide, taking place right now. We have the power to stop it. But action to date by the civilized world has been utterly insufficient.