Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

I'm a reporter. I've been a big supporter of The Clinton Foundation. Back in 2001 and 2002, people forget that Bill Clinton went to Harlem and set this foundation up. They've helped millions of people across the globe and here in America.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

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.

There are few forces for good as extensive and important as the United Nations. Being able to work with them and other global aid organisations for World Humanitarian Day is a humbling and extraordinary opportunity.

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

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.

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

I welcome the work that the Clinton Global Initiative has done with groups and individuals like Bono and all that's happened around the world.

HSNi Cares was established in 2010 with a mission to empower women and support children and families in need locally, nationally, and globally.

The people of the D.P.R.K. need our generosity and help.

The 'Maddox Jolie-Pitt' Foundation's work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.

My biggest regret is that there are only 24 hours in a day. I wish there was at least a few more hours. Each hour of me being awake means I can help a few more migrants who are stranded and are desperate to reach home.

I am a huge supporter of the Waxman foundation.

The role of first lady brings with it unique opportunities to help people across the country and around the world.

I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work in restaurants or as teachers and dental technicians. My twin brother Merlin is an artist.

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