Antonio Guterres Quotes

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

We're creating an attitude that disaster relief is an entitlement program like Medicare of Social Security ....

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

Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

In peacetime without war, they have destroyed all that could be destroyed. We are standing on one-sixth of the world, a rich country with our pants down and hoping someone will help us.

The overriding purpose of foreign assistance must be genuine development, not the assuaging of Western guilt or the care and feeding of the massive network of career professionals, non-profit organizations and private sector companies that constitute the global aid industry.

The Federal Government did not know about the people at the New Orleans Convention center until today.

In the pandemonium of the crisis in New Orleans, somehow getting people on busses took priority over keeping them alive.

There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation of their freedoms.

Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.

It doesn't matter whether the challenge we face is large or small, whether it's a statewide disaster or a crisis just on our own block - Nebraskans face it with courage, goodwill, and the unwavering conviction that we are part of one community of neighbors and friends.

The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency.