I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot o…

- Nat Hentoff

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

- Nat Hentoff

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

- Nat Hentoff

One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that said, if there is a botched abortion, i…

- Nat Hentoff

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all t…

- Nat Hentoff

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

- Nat Hentoff

[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

- Nat Hentoff

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

- Nat Hentoff

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

- Nat Hentoff