Nat Hentoff Quotes

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

I still like George W. Bush. A lot.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

I like Steve Bannon. He is a good man. He is not a racist - I can tell you that. He's a good person, and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.

Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.

One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.