Alan Dershowitz

Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible…

— Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

— Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's…

— Alan Dershowitz

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that…

— Alan Dershowitz

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as…

— Alan Dershowitz

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised…

— Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive…

— Alan Dershowitz

To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to…

— Alan Dershowitz

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have…

— Alan Dershowitz

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would…

— Alan Dershowitz

We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws…

— Alan Dershowitz

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

— Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Alan Dershowitz

Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had…

— Alan Dershowitz

I am attacked equally by the hard right and the hard left for expressing what they regard as politically incorrect views. I…

— Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

— Alan Dershowitz

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother…

— Alan Dershowitz

Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion…

— Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

— Alan Dershowitz

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Alan Dershowitz

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting.…

— Alan Dershowitz

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

— Alan Dershowitz