Bill Clinton

It may be that the Idaho missionaries, that their explanation is absolutely accurate and they are 100 percent innocent. And I think what is important now is for the government of Haiti and the government of the United States to get…

The Haitians are determined that Haiti won't become a ground where children can be trafficked or sold or anything like that. That's a noble goal. It may be that the Idaho missionaries, to their explanation is absolutely accurate and…

Look, I want to go on nuclear power. I want to go forward with that. I want to go forward with offshore drilling.

The good news is that Haiti is not a particularly difficult society to secure.

I do think that the United States should consider increasing the assignment of American police officers to the U.N. police contingent there.

No other people in the world would be so patient and calm in the face of so much suffering.

Stabilization and reconstruction operations take time.

2 years was too short a time to fix a society as troubled as Haiti's.

First, security is an essential prerequisite for reform, as it is for private investment.

I think the aid is coming in as fast as we can get it in by air and a little bit bussing it in. The real -- as you know, the real bottlenecks are the distribution system here.

What we have to do is to help them survive by saving as many lives as possible, trying to preserve with some dignity those who have died so they can be identified by their loved ones and properly buried, and then trying to help those who…

Oh, sure they can, but right now, they're really hurting.

We've got to go through, and we need more helicopters because some of the roads are closed.

Well, the greatest needs from the point of view of government support are for more search and rescue teams and more medical teams.

There's a need for food. There's a need for water. We have to start thinking short-term and long-term.

One of the greatest needs is for search-and-rescue teams right now, because, as you saw in that piece, there are still people out there who are alive.

The only reason you're endorsing Barack Obama is because he's black.

A few years ago this guy would have been serving us coffee.

I just told them that I thought, economically, America had to pass health care reform, because we were spending $900 billion a year more than we would be spending on any other system, and we were getting less for it.

I just told them that I thought economically America had to pass health care reform because we were spending $900 billion a year more than we would be spending on any other system and we were getting less for it.

Yes, he was a rambunctious guy. Yes, on occasion he said and did things he probably shouldn't have. But he -- he was the right man at the right time.

But still, being president gives you a chance to shape the lives of hundreds of millions, billions of people. That was an honor. I'll have to live a long time to have a bigger impact. Maybe I'll get lucky and do it.

The idea here is that we bring in, around the United Nations. We invite leaders from every continent to come here and meet with business leaders from America and around the world. We try to get way beyond the politics and just say, if you…

General McChrystal is clearly right. That is, in what he says if we want to prevail there, we need more military forces.

I do. I'm no longer opposed to that. I think, if people want to make commitments that last a lifetime, they ought to be able to do it.