Jean Claude Duvalier's Quotes

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.