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Letter "J" » Jan Egeland Quotes
«[After the tsunami,] we had about 1000 helicopters active from the countries concerned, and from the whole international community ... We have about one-10th of this in this emergency, and we need helicopters just as badly.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«It will be a marathon sprint throughout the winter where we have to do lifesaving assistance until the snow melts sometime in April.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«This is the race against the clock that we've been talking about for some time, ... freeze to death if they don't get assistance in weeks.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«This is one of the biggest challenges of our time and age, we need to make vulnerable people living in developing nations more resilient to natural hazards.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,»
Author: Jan Egeland
«It's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«We're sending around a hat now, we don't know how much is in the hat when it's coming back - in an emergency situation,»
Author: Jan Egeland
«Had there been better prevention, better early warning, better schools, earthquake-safe buildings - tens of thousands of lives would have been saved both in the Indian Ocean tsunami and in the South Asian earthquake,»
Author: Jan Egeland
«We have to date received no pledges.»
Author: Jan Egeland
«Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance today, because it is too dangerous.»
Author: Jan Egeland
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