Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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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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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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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 guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
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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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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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Bill Shawn didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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Barack Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
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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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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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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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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
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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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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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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.
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A.J.Muste died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.
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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.
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Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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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.