Nat Hentoff Quotes
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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.
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I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.
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I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
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You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with John McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.
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One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that said, if there is a botched abortion, if the child emerges from the womb alive, it should be okay to kill the baby. We have elected a president - twice! - who agrees with infanticide.
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You have an electorate in America that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.
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The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he Bill Clinton is not tough on crime.
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What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
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In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Barack Obama has reneged on his promises.
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Throughout Barack Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
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My wife has some investments and stuff.
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That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.
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When Bill Clinton was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.
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I say personally because I am 84 years old, and Barack Obama's is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.
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I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper The Voice?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.
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The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
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A.J. Muste never engaged in violence but he believed, as Mahatma Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.
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Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
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An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way Barack Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
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Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.
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The media ignores what is really going on.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.