Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
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I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
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Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for The New Republic, I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing fire a journalist.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of Barack Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."
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Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.
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A.J.Muste died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.
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As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the Barack Obama administration.
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Left are very hesitant to criticize Barack Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by Francesco Mussolini.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.