Andrea Yates Quotes

One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn`t because that wasn`t her.

Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.

There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.

If they drop charges against her, then she`d go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she`s well enough to go home, ... They`ve treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it`s a waste of the taxpayers` money to prosecute her.

I think everyone would lose again if they brought her back to trial, ... Although, if she does go back to trial she could be found not guilty by reason of insanity. To me, any way I look at it, it`s good for her.

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren`t real and hear things that aren`t real and believe things that aren`t real, and act in that distorted reality.

just killed my children.

the primary emphasis is on care and not security.

She loved our kids, ... kind, gentle person.

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,