Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— 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

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

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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…

— 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

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She…

— Nat Hentoff

My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she…

— Nat Hentoff

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

— Nat Hentoff

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening…

— Nat Hentoff

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

— Nat Hentoff

I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday…

— Nat Hentoff

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