At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil." — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made… — 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 am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense… — 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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image