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

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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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Oil and democracy don't mix. Oil has never enhanced democratic institutions or economic justice where it has been found.

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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.

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

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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.

Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark

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Born: December 18, 1927

Died: April 9, 2021 (aged 93)

Bio: William Ramsey Clark was 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.

Known for:

The Torturer in the Mirror (2010)
War Crimes (1992)

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