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Nat Hentoff was an American historian known for his contributions to the fields of liberalism and the civil rights movement. Born on June 10, 1925, and passing away on January 7, 2017, Hentoff's work covered a wide range of topics, including music, literature, law, and social justice.

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“An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.”

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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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“[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.”

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“Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.”

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“The [George W.] Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued.[Barack] Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.”

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“[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.”

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“[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.”

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“[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].”

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“I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.”

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

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

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“Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."”

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“The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.”

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“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.”

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

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“You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.”

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“[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.”

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“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.”

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“A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.”

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“[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.”

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

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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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“This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.”

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

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Born: June 10, 1925
Died: January 7, 2017
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 220

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