Nat Hentoff

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

— Nat Hentoff

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

— Nat Hentoff

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

— Nat Hentoff

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

— Nat Hentoff

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

— Nat Hentoff

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

— Nat Hentoff

Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may…

— Nat Hentoff

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

— Nat Hentoff

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

— Nat Hentoff

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

— Nat Hentoff

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

— Nat Hentoff

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever…

— Nat Hentoff

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to…

— Nat Hentoff

I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him…

— Nat Hentoff

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening…

— Nat Hentoff

Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was…

— Nat Hentoff

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New…

— Nat Hentoff

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in…

— Nat Hentoff

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so…

— Nat Hentoff

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

— Nat Hentoff

As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone…

— Nat Hentoff

I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who…

— Nat Hentoff

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of…

— Nat Hentoff

I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They…

— Nat Hentoff

I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of…

— Nat Hentoff

The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner…

— Nat Hentoff

A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of…

— Nat Hentoff

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in…

— Nat Hentoff

[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made…

— Nat Hentoff

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

— Nat Hentoff

The media ignores what is really going on.

— Nat Hentoff

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

— Nat Hentoff

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

— Nat Hentoff

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

— Nat Hentoff

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

— Nat Hentoff

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

— Nat Hentoff