Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

About Alan Dershowitz:

Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, author, and political commentator. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there from 1993 until his retirement in December 2013.
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I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

Alan Dershowitz

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

Alan Dershowitz

I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Alan Dershowitz

It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.

Alan Dershowitz

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.

Alan Dershowitz

My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Alan Dershowitz

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.

Alan Dershowitz

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

Alan Dershowitz

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Alan Dershowitz

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.

Alan Dershowitz

Author Bio

  • NameAlan Dershowitz
  • DescriptionAmerican lawyer, author
  • BornSeptember 1, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship