We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare, ever.

[The PricewaterhouseCoopers project will be] an Internet-based tracking system for the whole cycle from the pledge to the actual dispersion, … real time tracking of which pledges we get, when they are committed, when they...

This is a desperate situation. As you can see we are making progress in the more populated areas but it is so hard to reach the others,

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

The secretary general said it may take as much as five to ten years. We hope it will take much less time.

We need rich countries, rich individuals, even only those of us who are reasonably affluent to respond generously.

The loss of life, the new displacement of families, the destruction to businesses and property, as well as threats to humanitarian workers, are creating a climate of fear and tension for civilians.

people who could freeze to death, starve to death, or just be sick because of infected water.

We must end this tyranny of silence.

The schools that collapsed on the children should not have collapsed. They were death traps.

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation...

We are trying now to move from saving lives in daily food distribution to doing agricultural work: livestock, water and irrigation recovery projects.

I think with all its local and regional flaws, it was the most effective, efficient and response-oriented relief effort ever. We had never faced a challenge like this in our history, with a dozen countries...

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. … The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

I think it’s a matter of weeks or months that we will have a collapse in many of our operations. As I told the Security Council today, I don’t think the world has understood how...

We need additional resources. I want more from everybody but I do recognize that some Europeans and the Americans give us already a lot. There are others who should step up to the plate.

I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking...

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

With the resources made available today and the commitments that will come in the coming days, we will redouble our collective efforts.

The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours — or minutes — for this wall of water to come, and there’s just very, very little time.

It is not slow. The first three or four days there weren’t even (open) roads here,

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention – help us bring resources.

Many families are still not in permanent housing and now it’s rainy season,

I’ve already said I thought it would be well above 150,000 total. How many tens of thousands more, we don’t know.

It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker.

We’re doing too little combined as an international community because it’s too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only...

The goal of the fund is simple: to provide aid workers with funding to jump-start lifesaving relief operations .

This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.

We have in Somalia, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, been individually targeted by extremist groups, which nearly made us leave Somalia completely.

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it’s too late? Maybe. It’s a logistical nightmare,

NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard.

The world’s response to the tsunami was the best ever. Governments, the private sector, and individuals around the world opened their hearts and their wallets. Private donations for the tsunami eclipsed anything seen before.

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We...

There are many countries in the Gulf and elsewhere who have received an enormous windfall from these oil prices, … their aid would be much more effective if offered through the United Nations.

My heart goes out to the children of North Korea.

three times the strength they have today.

worse than the tsunami.

The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us,

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

It is only the Somalis themselves – and I don’t hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here – they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time...

I fear we are losing the race against the clock in the small villages … I’ve never seen such devastation before.

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

In terms of the human lives lost, this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. It is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention.

there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven’t gotten to.

It’s like a lottery, where there are 50 victimized groups always trying to get the winning ticket, and they play every night and they lose every night.

The world is not doing enough.

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have...

This would mean the saving of hundreds of thousands and millions of livelihoods.

We’re in a bad year. There have been more international disasters than usual. All the wars are continuing. The Pakistan situation will have an effect elsewhere.

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.