Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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.
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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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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
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I have two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.
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I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.
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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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In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now with Barack Obama.
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A good many people voted for Barack Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.
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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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George W. Bush was led astray and we were led astray.
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My chronology is terrible. Work with William Shawn must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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Bill Shawn had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes.
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I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.
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Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip of Jules Feiffer. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.
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Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.
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Barack Obama to be much worse than George W. Bush.
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Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
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Margot Hentoff thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.
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I think at least two of my kids - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.
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Bill Shawn didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.
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There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.
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I am hesitant to say this about Barack Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.
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I met my wife Margot on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.