When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.
Alan DershowitzEverybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.
Alan DershowitzMy goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
Alan DershowitzI think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
Alan Dershowitz