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William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is 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. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.

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People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Came, Elderly, Forgotten, People, Relationship, Whence

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

Intended, People, Secret, United States

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

Flawed, Injustice, Marred, Trials

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

Foreign, Peace, Policy, War, World

The U. S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

Destroy, Europe, Numbers, Sophistication, Systems, Twenties

The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.

Church, Jesus, Lenders, Mean, Muhammad, Two

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Business Education, Crime, Foundation, Honesty, Labor, Lasting

It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed. . . We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.

Country, War, Atrocities Committed, History, Transgressors

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Cause, Causes, Government, World

Impeachment appears six times in the U. S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

Founders, King, Kings, Law, People, Things

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

Citizen, Citizens, House, Measure, Public, Quality

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

Ignorant, Poor, Rehabilitation, Sick, Suffered, Unjustly

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Democracy, Government, Idea, Ideas, Reality, Wealthy

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

Law, Police, Protect, Violate

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.

Criminals, Handles, Individual, Prison, Society, Way

Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

Conventional, Direct, Government, Law, Mean, Removing

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Dignity, Giving, Islam, Poor, Religion

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

Constitution, Democracy, Faults

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

Gives, Giving, Libertarian Party, Right, Rights, Take

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

Asked, Duty, Felt, Testify, Volunteer

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