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

Nat Hentoff

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You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who... by Nat Hentoff

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

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The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.

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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happenin... by Nat Hentoff

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

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We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff]. by Nat Hentoff

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

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[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.

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When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

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Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

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I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there ma... by Nat Hentoff

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

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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 the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

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That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Ex... by Nat Hentoff

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

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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.

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However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in an... by Nat Hentoff

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is... by Nat Hentoff

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.

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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like [Barack] Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.

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I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

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He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

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The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.

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The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of th... by Nat Hentoff

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

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In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have... by Nat Hentoff

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

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The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

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