I'm just grateful for the opportunity to say thanks to Pat for the thousands of persons whose lives she has touched.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

It's an incredible, heroic engineering story. They beat Mother Nature. They beat the insurgents.

I told my bishop I would match dollar for dollar any donations. He gave me $25,000, and my wife and I matched that.

Preval is going to have to be bringing people to the table and finding common ground to move forward. It is going to be quite a challenge.

The window will probably not be open too long. He will have to show some improvement in their lives. And he will need partnerships of Haitians with resources to do this.

Everything in Haiti is broken, and everything needs fixing.

Everything in Haiti is broken and everything needs fixing. One of the most immediate tasks is reconciliation and dialogue among Haitians.

Haiti is not the basket case most people make it out to be. Haiti's governments have been basket cases. That's what has held back the people from achieving their potential.

Good guys fix it. Bad guys blow it up. That struggle continues almost every day.