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
President Saddam Hussein was in very good spirits, very clear minded. We had a good discussion after the court.
The whole environment in the country is so violent and threatening it's impossible for it to function.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.
Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice.
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.
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.
What was the government doing? What's the meaning of this?
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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.