Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting.

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As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

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

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

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Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what b... by Nat Hentoff

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

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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the Presid... by Nat Hentoff

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

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The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working a... by Nat Hentoff

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

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Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

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The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

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Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

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[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

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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.

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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

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I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destru... by Nat Hentoff

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

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I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music. by Nat Hentoff

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

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I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

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[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.

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[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.

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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an or... by Nat Hentoff

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

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[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

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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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