Armando Gutierrez Quotations

We are hopeful our nation's Fourth of July celebration this year will not be tarnished by the removal of a child from this land of freedom, to a land of gross violence and extensively documented human rights' violations.

He is a brainwashed little kid afraid of Castro, just like everyone else.

He does not want to go back to Cuba.

We will guarantee Juan Miguel will be safe in this house and we will respect whatever is worked out with the family.

We will have a normal meeting, a family meeting. It will be something that Elian will be very proud of, the family here will be very proud of and the grandmas will be very proud of.

The most important thing is to say that these trips are very dangerous. The people who bring Cubans here do it for money, not patriotism.

They said sign the piece of paper or we're taking the kid.

They are confident they are doing the right thing. They will keep fighting for what his mom died for.

This is a very rough time for us, but we must obey the law and the rule of law.

It's tragic, because the father will not meet with his family. This is a good family, you know. We have letters four months ago, how they used to write to each other, send money to Cuba to help him and now after Castro loco got involved, look what happened.

The family does not feel defeated and they still have faith in God that the Supreme Court will accept the appeal in the same way God saved Elian from drowning.

And God knows the ones we don't know about.