I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the… — 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
I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a… — 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
Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more… — 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
When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or… — 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
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