Quotes from Nat Hentoff

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

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

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

Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.