Quotes from Jovenel Moise

People who seek ransom out on the roads, who set up barricades, they are looking for work.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

This is not about abolishing parliamentary power. It's about rebalancing power.

If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

Your president, the one you voted for, is not involved in corruption. Your president was never in corruption.

The people went out and voted the banana man, and the Tabulation Center counted the tally sheets.

The voters who chose to cast their vote for another candidate, I want them to know that I respect their choice. I will be president for every Haitian.

I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

I will not permit anyone to put chaos and disorder in the country under any pretext.

Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

We must go beyond talking about the survival of the government, because political stability in Haiti is the most important thing for us.

After decades of systematic plundering of state property by corrupt oligarchs, the country needs a collective awakening.

The biggest problem Haiti has is the weakness of its public institutions.

I was president of a company and that company had a contract with the state.

The government has to take every effort to create the conditions for peace to be established in the four corners of the country.

President Trump and I are entrepreneurs, and all an entrepreneur wants is results, and therefore I hope we'll put everything in place to make sure we deliver for our peoples.

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

I'm not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don't know when they're leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.

The people took to the streets in July 2018 to demand change. I heard you. That's why I chose an electoral rival - notary public Jean Henry Ceant - as my prime minister.

We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

As you all know, agriculture is my priority. You all know this, I have just said it.