The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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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.Ramsey Clark
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.
Ramsey Clark
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,
Ramsey Clark
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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.
Ramsey Clark
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.
Ramsey Clark
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