Joanne Liu Quotes

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 work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.

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

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

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

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

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

The fact is that Germany is taking on its responsibility in the world - in the fight against IS, but also in the Middle East, in Africa and in Afghanistan.

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

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

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.

Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering most in this circumstance, in this condition. We vet refugees from Syria for a period of 18 to 24 months before they're allowed to come to the United States. And, you know, if you will permit me, I think we know more about them by the time they get here than we know about the president's finances.