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

~Alan Dershowitz

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I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: After Area Articles Concept Deal How Important Law Legacy More Moving Much Occur Prevent Prevention Preventive State Than Them Trying Will Written Wrongs

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I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.

~Alan Dershowitz

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I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Boring Had Hope Life Never Personally Professionally Satisfying Says Tombstone

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What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

~Alan Dershowitz

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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

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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.'

~Alan Dershowitz

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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

~Alan Dershowitz

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

~Alan Dershowitz

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On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

~Alan Dershowitz

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: September 1st, 1938

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