As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that 'Bill Shawn will… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
[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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
[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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
![“[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/nat-hentoff-1615_able_s-ren-kierkegaard-said-it-for-me-a-long_1177231.png)
![“I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/nat-hentoff-1615_attention_i-wrote-the-column-i-you-know-the-column_2228462.jpg)
![“My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b15/nat-hentoff-1615_chronology_my-chronology-is-terrible-work-with-will_68342.png)
![“I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, 'Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, 'No, thanks. The piece is over.'” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/nat-hentoff-1615_band_i-got-joan-baez-to-talk-and-alan-ginsber_2782009.png)
![“I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said'[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aff/nat-hentoff-1615_bad-mistake_i-told-a-big-investor-in-the-new-yorker_1855550.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/nat-hentoff-1615_car_i-got-a-letter-one-day-from-somebody-say_2544424.jpg)
![“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/nat-hentoff-1615_advise_a-woman-in-the-audience-asked-barack-oba_3075241.jpg)
![“I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, 'Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, 'All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/nat-hentoff-1615_cardinals_i-like-john-cardinal-o-connor-a-lot-he-i_2810252.png)
![“Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using 'freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/nat-hentoff-1615_correctness_tom-hentoff-it-started-when-he-was-the-e_1887824.png)
