Nat Hentoff Quotes
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My wife Margot was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager of The Jazz Review, and we got to know each other and we married.
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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
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He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this invasions of privacy. So all in all, Barack Obama is a disaster.
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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.
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Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.
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I know Arthur Koestler fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.
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You see that in his foreign policy Barack Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
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The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet. Barack Obama has done nothing about that.
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In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia.
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Barack Obama is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.
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The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.
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The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner - of The New Republic fired a journalist who I think was uncommonly skilled and full of integrity and passion and all that stuff. But he had criticized regularly the former pupil and friend of Martin Peretz, Al Gore, so he was fired. That's contrarianist that went around - that did - that was not rewarded.
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After New – when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.
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I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.
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Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.
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I wish my wife would work because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
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The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. Bill Shawn knew exactly what he wanted to do.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
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Bill Clinton has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - Bill Clinton has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.