Guardians Quotes

(On the Iraq war): All people have to be prepared. If we are going to be the police, we also have to be the guardians. We can no longer play games. I was not against the war in Bosnia. I was against it taking so long. I was not against the war in Somalia. Again, it took too long, and we didn`t finish the job. We should`ve stayed and finished the job. About this pending war, I just think we should`ve finished that war the first time.

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people.

(That ruling may bode well for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who has petitioned the court to recognize his exclusive right to speak for Elian in legal matters, and to be left to raise his child in peace.) It would certainly have been very unusual for the court to rule against the father because the law presumes that a person`s parent is their guardian, and doesn`t appoint outside guardians in the normal course of events, ... For the court to appoint a third-party guardian it would usually need an indication that something was badly wrong in the parent-child relationship, such as abuse.

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guardians said they didn`t need anything, ... She seems to be quite happy.