[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
Nat HentoffYou have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.
Nat HentoffIf [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.
Nat HentoffMy - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but he has done more harm to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than any president since John Adams.
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