Nat Hentoff

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

— Nat Hentoff

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

— Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

— Nat Hentoff

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

— Nat Hentoff

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

— Nat Hentoff

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

— Nat Hentoff

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more…

— Nat Hentoff

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to…

— Nat Hentoff

[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

— Nat Hentoff

The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done…

— Nat Hentoff

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they…

— Nat Hentoff

The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

— Nat Hentoff

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a…

— Nat Hentoff

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore…

— Nat Hentoff

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted…

— Nat Hentoff

I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer…

— Nat Hentoff

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for…

— Nat Hentoff

Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't…

— Nat Hentoff

That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that…

— Nat Hentoff

[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically…

— Nat Hentoff

I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker…

— Nat Hentoff

Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,…

— Nat Hentoff

“Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or…

— Nat Hentoff

This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the…

— Nat Hentoff

The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based…

— Nat Hentoff

Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put…

— Nat Hentoff

I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of…

— Nat Hentoff

I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said'[Bill Shawn] pays very well,…

— Nat Hentoff

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

— Nat Hentoff

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

— Nat Hentoff

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

— Nat Hentoff

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

— Nat Hentoff

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

— Nat Hentoff

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

— Nat Hentoff

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

— Nat Hentoff

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

— Nat Hentoff