Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.
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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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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.
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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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I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.
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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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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
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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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This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
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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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You see that in his foreign policy Barack Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
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That race is still part of what Barack Obama is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.
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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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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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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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Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.
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In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia.
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The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
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The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.
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Bill Clinton has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.
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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.
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I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.
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The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.