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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.
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[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.
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I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.
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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.
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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.
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[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].
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