181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

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 need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.

The world did exactly the right thing in the tsunami. I always feel that this should be our new standard.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

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.

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

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

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.