Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clarkis an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth18 December 1927
CountryUnited States of America
What was the government doing? What's the meaning of this?
What was the government doing? ... (FBI agents) had absolutely no regard of the lives of any of the people in there. All they had to do was wait them out.
How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].
Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.
There's too much violence in the country, there's too much division and too much pressure on the court. The project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place.
No lawyer Saddam Hussein has known before the U.S. invasion has seen him, ... He never has had anything approaching counsel of his own choosing?. There has been no ability to begin to prepare a defense.
There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear?
We will be back in court on December 5 and we will demand protection of the counsel.
Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
We've had 10 years of malnutrition and sickness,
Both commanders were courageous enough to fight more powerful countries.
I've been in many unpopular cases where there's been high community prejudice against the defendants, but here everybody has been hurt, and everybody is angry,