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
There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense,
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.
I don't know if they'll ever get their act together. I don't think they can. I think there's too much violence in the country, too much division, too much pressure on the court ... The project ought to be abandoned.
Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.
The statutes of the high court in Iraq requires a public hearing but he (the presiding judge) arbitrarily cut it off so that you the press and the rest of the world could not see what he said.
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,
President Saddam Hussein was in very good spirits, very clear minded. We had a good discussion after the court.
Both commanders were courageous enough to fight more powerful countries.
Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
It creates sectarian passions that destroy rationality and reason and the search for truth.
We never thought we couldn't come back in. The fundamental right to counsel is the right to counsel of choice, not to somebody else's choice.
Nearly two months after the brutal execution of one of their members and the summary execution of a second lawyer, and all this time these men and their families have been left essentially unprotected.
What was the government doing? What's the meaning of this?