Alan Dershowitz Quotes

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Alan Dershowitz

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : September 1, 1938

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

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When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

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I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.

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I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

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I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

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Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

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The law is agnostic about truth.

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The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

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The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

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Well you know, all law is about injustice.

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It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

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I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

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I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

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You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

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