Quote #4

'He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.' - BBC interview, 28 November 2005, about the torture and murder of 148 men and boys near the mainly Shiite town of Dujail, Iraq in 1982.

More from Ramsey Clark

  1. '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…
  2. 'A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear …
  3. '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.'
  4. 'A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.'
  5. 'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President o…
  6. 'If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.'
  7. 'Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?'
  8. 'The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.'

All Ramsey Clark quotes