Michel Martelly Quotes

• When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Today, School, Different

• When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Future, Past, Positive

• When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Done, Anymore, Governed

• The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Better, Days, Looking

• The last five – six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don’t think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next ‘president.’ I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Change, Honor, Last

• The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Waiting, Moving, Help

• My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past – because we need to learn from it – but to mainly think about the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Peace, Forget

• It’s time for Haitians to have access to health care. It’s time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It’s time to open our country to potential investors.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Time, Care

• It’s a party that’s being organized; it’s not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Long, Before

• International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Giving, Give

• I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn’t want me to resign.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Good, Party

• I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Keep, Singing, Close

• I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I’ve played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Music, Through, Away

• I don’t want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I’m pushing them out.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Force, Nations, Pushing

• I don’t even want to be president!

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in President

• I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called ‘Ooh La La,’ that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Music, Song, Fresh

• I believe my past is my strength.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Strength, Believe

• Haiti has changed a lot.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Changed, Haiti

• Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

  Michel Martelly

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  Tags in Everything, Priority, Haiti

• Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Need, Used

Michel Martelly (21)

Birth:	12th February, 1961
Nationality:	Haitian
Profession:	Businessman, Musician, Politician

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