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
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.
How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].
This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
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.
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.