I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive. Nat Hentoff More Quotes by Nat Hentoff More Quotes From Nat Hentoff It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.' Nat Hentoff latinhometeacher My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went back to some kind of work 'cause that was a very responsible position. Nat Hentoff bostoncausesmother My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever. Nat Hentoff salesmanenglandfather [My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent. Nat Hentoff salesmansawsfather The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter. Nat Hentoff voicejobsthinking I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him. Nat Hentoff arthurmetslectures I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press. Nat Hentoff pieceswhitefirsts I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.' Nat Hentoff cheerrunningwar The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press. Nat Hentoff ownershipspeechstrong I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living. Nat Hentoff intimidatedfeels My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time. Nat Hentoff nashvilleindependentfather I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me. Nat Hentoff maxwritingthinking My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press Nat Hentoff chronologyterriblesaid After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to. Nat Hentoff billswantlong [I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible. Nat Hentoff dukesbandplay [William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically nothing in terms of what was inside, very rushed paper anymore. You - not very contemplative, thoughtful or whatever. Nat Hentoff thoughtfulvoicenew-york The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England. Nat Hentoff united-statesbillsengland Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic. Nat Hentoff franklinenthusiasticclock The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself. Nat Hentoff politically-correctmovementtrying I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in. Nat Hentoff crazynew-yorkcountry
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