Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Jovenel Moise

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Haitian politician Jovenel Moise.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Jovenel Moïse was a Haitian entrepreneur and politician, who served as the president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. He was sworn in as president in February 2017 after winning the November 2016 election. In 2019, political unrest and calls for his resignation became a crisis. In the early morning of 7 July 2021, Moïse was assassinated, and his wife Martine was injured during an attack on their private residence in Pétion-Ville. Claude Joseph took control of the country as acting president following his assassination.

Haitian - Politician | June 26, 1968 - July 7, 2021

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I am the president of all Haitians, the good and the bad.

Jovenel Moise

As president the law dictates how I do my job. The same law dictates how a judge should function.

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The government should take all responsibility to continue with the social appeasement projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods to improve people's conditions.

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I have had 20 months of campaigning.

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We need peace and stability to encourage people to vote.

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We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

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I want to see results.

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President Trump and I are entrepreneurs, and all an entrepreneur wants is results, and therefore I hope we'll put everything in place to make sure we deliver for our peoples.

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The people went out and voted the banana man, and the Tabulation Center counted the tally sheets.

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I will not permit anyone to put chaos and disorder in the country under any pretext.

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Those who misspent the government's money, they should be arrested and locked up.

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Jovenel is his own man.

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Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

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I've given myself 18 to 24 months for Haiti to have electricity 24 hours around the clock.

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They gave me six weeks to do a campaign, and I did all of Haiti in six weeks.

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We need a system that works.

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No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

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When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn't speak about corruption.

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For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

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After decades of systematic plundering of state property by corrupt oligarchs, the country needs a collective awakening.

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There should be an investigation into other organizations that have been working here since 2010. For example, Doctors Without Borders had to repatriate about 17 people for misconduct which was not explained.

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I don't see how there is anyone, after God, who has more power than me in the country.

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Certain people should not be allowed to exploit the law, to decide the only way to engage in politics is to accuse others of lying.

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Unfortunately, a significant portion of the world is still struggling with poverty and hunger and it will be impossible to reverse this trend without a huge mobilization of financial resources.

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We must gather our courage. Hold hands and cast aside our divisions. We must embrace what unites us, together we can.

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The dignity of the Haitian people has been trampled on.

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I am a hard-working entrepreneur.

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It's time for us to work together to construct a Haiti that will make our forefathers proud.

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There is no shortcut to the development of Haiti.

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We will write a new page of history, one that is positive for this country, so future generations can be proud.

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Many Haitians don't want to participate in something they think will be violent.

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I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

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Your president, the one you voted for, is not involved in corruption. Your president was never in corruption.

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You cannot develop a country on donations.

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We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

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Haitians must understand that they have to collaborate to resolve the country's problems - no one is coming to rescue them.

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It takes a lot of courage to stay in power, but I am pledging to you to have the courage to continue moving forward.

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We must go beyond talking about the survival of the government, because political stability in Haiti is the most important thing for us.

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I'm not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don't know when they're leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.

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If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

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I will not respond to violence with violence.

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The voters who chose to cast their vote for another candidate, I want them to know that I respect their choice. I will be president for every Haitian.

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I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

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Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country.

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I am fully aware of my responsibility to ensure conditions are establish to guarantee security, stability and long-term development in Haiti.

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We are all Haitians, and we will build one Haiti for all Haitians.

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I've already engaged in talks with the textile sector, where we hope to create tens of thousands more jobs.

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Persons who wrongly managed or used the government's money will have to respond to justice in a process that is just, balanced and without political prosecution and without bias.

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