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1927–2021 United States
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F.
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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.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.
"There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many."
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.
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.
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.
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