"Tragedy will strike when the rain comes."
A group of US Senators wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama urging the immediate relocation of Haitians to safer ground.
(February 19, The Guardian UK)
"When the rain comes, it will be a public health disaster. It could easily be on the scale of the earthquake itself."
Oscar-winning actor and director Sean Penn, who has been in Haiti running an aid organization he established following the quake.
He has been driving a campaign called Beat The Rain.
(February 19, Hollywood News)
"We're running out of time."
John Holmes, the UN's humanitarian chief in Haiti, as new camp sites have yet to be opened to relocate some of the 1.3 million people made homeless by the quake. Haiti's largest landowners, the Preval government and the UN have been unable to reach agreements on the needed land sites for over two months.
(March 19, The Associated Press)
"The US is an hour and a half from here. We can help everyone if we get our priorities straight."
Former Georgetown Hoya, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Alonzo Mourning interviewed while in Port-au-Prince right after the quake, clearing rubble from a medical aid site and helping care for children with Project Medishare, a charity he has supported for many years.
(January 18, The Times London)
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