Ramsey Clark Quotes


"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Law, Police, Public, Will)

"Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Change, Life, Love, Opportunity, Force)

"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."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Society, Being, Concern)

"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Quality, Measure, Public)

"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Constitution, Faults)

"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."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: People, Country, Justice, Law)

"I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Duty)

"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Right)

"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."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Concern, First, Lawyers, Security)

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: War, Policy, Crime, Foreign policy, World, World war)