Ramsey Clark citations

“The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back.”

“He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.”

“Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.”

“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”

“Our overriding purpose, from the beginning right through to the present day, has been world domination — that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible; and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of our foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to facilitate our exploitation of resources. And insofar as any people or states get in the way of our domination, they must be eliminated — or, at the very least, shown the error of their ways.”

“A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: You cannot have either until you have both.”

“The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.”