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Ideas don't desert you ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
Lawyer
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.
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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
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I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.
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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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Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
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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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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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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
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All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
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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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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
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Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
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I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
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I am a peace supporting Jew.
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I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.
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