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.
Ramsey ClarkA humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
Ramsey ClarkThe great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Ramsey ClarkThe 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.
Ramsey ClarkThere 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 ClarkIt 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.
Ramsey Clark