Janet Reno Child Quotations

that could prolong the separation of this child from his father.

It does the child no good to be in limbo,

I think it is very important when you don't know what is going to happen either inside the house or outside the house, ... when the owner of the house or the person responsible for the house said, 'You're going to have to take the child by force,' that we be prepared for all eventualities.

There is a little 6-year-old boy who survived one of the most traumatic events that any child could experience -- to lose his mother there in the Gulf Stream, to float for as long as he did, and live to come ashore under the circumstances that he did. We've just got to think about that little boy,

What I regret more than anything else is that people didn't just turn the child over when the order came down.

Up until the last, we tried every way we could to encourage Lazaro Gonzalez to voluntarily hand over the child to his father, ... Unfortunately, the Miami relatives rejected our efforts, leaving us no other option but the enforcement action.

not willing to wait through an open-ended appeals process that could prolong separation of this child from his father.

I can ... assure the public that they will not see federal marshals at 2:01 today attempting to remove the child by force,