Samuel Dash Quotes
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Dash, Samuel. Interview. Academy of Achievement, American Academy of Achievement, 10 June 2000.
President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.
President Ford had recently pardoned Richard M. Nixon.
This important statement would not have been a noteworthy quote as so many have said it before, except for the fact that she was writing as a spokesperson of Nationalist China and she was the wife of the Nationalist Party leader, Chiang Kai-Shek. And the great failure of Chiang’s governance was the corruption and the excessive exploitation of the Chinese people by the wealthy. Madame Chaing, educated at Vassar College, knew just what to say to Americans and she mustered incredible support for the Nationalist cause most of which would never have been forthcoming if Americans knew the truth about the Nationalist Government. It was so corrupt, that the vast majority of the people aided the Communists in defeating Chaing, expelling him from the mainland, and relegating his government to Taiwan. Madame Chaing’s hypocrisy was legend. See {615696}.
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
Samuel Dash was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United States Congress on the Watergate incident.
