An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Elliott Abrams

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

Al Roker

Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.

Alek Wek

It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.

Alek Wek

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

Alek Wek

Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.

Alek Wek

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

Alek Wek

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

Alek Wek

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

Alek Wek

My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

Alek Wek

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

Alek Wek

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

Alek Wek

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

Alek Wek

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Allyson Schwartz

The governments of south Sudan must make sure that everybody will get a nationality - that nobody will become stateless because of this separation.

Antonio Guterres

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

Audrey Hepburn

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

Barton Gellman

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

Barton Gellman

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

Damian Marley

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

Eli Yishai

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Elliott Abrams