Met Wife Quotes by Nat Hentoff

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned…

— Nat Hentoff

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to…

— Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have…

— Nat Hentoff

My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

— 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 know each…

— 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 on terrible…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

— Nat Hentoff