Alan Dershowitz Quotes

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.
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.
I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.
I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.
I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.
I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
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 I was wrong.
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.
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
I've always worked.
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
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