Ramsey Clark Quotes (50 Quotes)

We will be back in court on December 5 and we will demand protection of the counsel.

The court is dysfunctional and highly prejudiced.

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,

The whole environment in the country is so violent and threatening it's impossible for it to function.

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice.

What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,

Tomorrow, I guarantee you the Iraqi people will be outside in Baghdad at the courthouse demonstrating against Mr. Clark.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

How can you ask a witness to come in when there's a death threat ... Unless there's protection for the defense, I don't know how the trial can go forward.

He seemed at peace with himself. He realizes the danger. He may be fatalistic about the outcome, but he's certainly unbowed and maybe when he gets into court he gets ... more emotional than he does among his lawyers.

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.

History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right.

It's a creature of the U.S. military occupation, its statute was drafted by the U.S. and rubber-stamped later by people in the U.S. and supported all the time.

A fair trial in this case is absolutely imperative for historical truth.

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.

It creates sectarian passions that destroy rationality and reason and the search for truth.

Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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

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.

If the orders came from higher officials then you have a real problem. I don't see how you go forward with a trial,

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

Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.

The law requires that the court allow more time.

There are many problems with the legality of the court. The United States created the court. The United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the court.

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

This case presents as great a challenge of the possibility of a fair trial as any you're likely to see because the emotions are so intense,

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

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.

The trial has never been on track.

The violence is ever present and widespread, people so desperate. The power, the political interests in it, the omnipresence of the United States behind every door, plus soldiers on the streets. There are real questions whether you can have a real trial.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

This trial can divide or heal. Unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and fair in fact, it will divide rather than reconcile Iraq.

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.

International ANSWER.

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

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

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.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

President Saddam Hussein was in very good spirits, very clear minded. We had a good discussion after the court.

We are living in Iraq, a country that I love, in a very dangerous time. Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal.

Today we had further evidence. The court was chaotic about the half the time (with) two people, three people speaking at the same time.

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.