I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events. |
I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded. |
I've already said I thought it would be well above 150,000 total. How many tens of thousands more, we don't know. |
I've never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of devastation is getting wider. |
If it continues to be so dangerous to do humanitarian work, we may not be able to sustain our operations for 2.5 million people, |
If we don't work together we will become a disaster within a disaster. |
If we had had this fund, we would have been able to do more earlier. |
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. |
In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in. |
In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas. |
In the second week you will see much more orderly relief. The first week is always pretty chaotic. |
It could end tomorrow. It's as serious as that. |
It has never been worse. |
It is not right to sit with the money for reconstruction for one year from now if it is a question of whether people will still be alive. |
It is not slow. The first three or four days there weren't even (open) roads here, |