Knows Quotes by Nat Hentoff

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

— 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

[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of…

— 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

We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is…

— 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

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from…

— Nat Hentoff

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice…

— Nat Hentoff

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The…

— Nat Hentoff

I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.…

— Nat Hentoff

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that…

— Nat Hentoff

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He…

— Nat Hentoff

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did…

— Nat Hentoff

[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

— Nat Hentoff

When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing…

— Nat Hentoff

I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I…

— 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

I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn…

— 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

[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 was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I…

— Nat Hentoff