177 Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

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    I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

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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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    Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

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    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.

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    Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

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    Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

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

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