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When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
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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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I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.
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I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.
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I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.
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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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I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.
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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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I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
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