Kellyanne Conway Quotes

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

When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.

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.

Who takes care of their people better? FEMA or Hezbollah?

The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

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

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long, it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

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

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.

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

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.