Top 93 Andrew Sullivan Quotes

#1. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

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#2. I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

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#3. [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

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#4. I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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#5. The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

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#6. I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

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#7. The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -and may well mount a fifth column.

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#8. It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

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#9. I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

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#10. For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

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#11. In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

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#12. If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

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#13. The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

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#14. I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

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#15. You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

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#16. It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

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#17. Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

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#18. When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'

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#19. It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

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#20. The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

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#21. When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

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#22. Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

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#23. You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

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#24. I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

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#25. What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

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#26. Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

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#27. What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

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#28. The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

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#29. I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

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#30. Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

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#31. I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

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#32. The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

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#33. My father has been a rock for me every since.

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#34. When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

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#35. When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

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#36. What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

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#37. I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

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#38. I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

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#39. Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

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#40. [T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

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#41. In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

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#42. The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

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#43. Here's why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

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#44. There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

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#45. When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

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#46. I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

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#47. I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

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#48. When a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

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#49. I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.

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#50. I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

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#51. I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

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#52. The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

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#53. Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

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#54. Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

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#55. My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

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#56. How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

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#57. Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

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#58. We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

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#59. Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

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#60. The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

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#61. I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

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#62. [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

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#63. If you think you'll find intellectual stimulation, you're thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I've never been more bored by casual chat.

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#64. I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

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#65. I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

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#66. I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

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#67. If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

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#68. The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

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#69. I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

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#70. If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

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#71. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

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#72. [Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

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#73. Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

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#74. I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

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#75. [T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.

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#76. To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

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#77. Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

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#78. The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

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#79. Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

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#80. The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

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#81. No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

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#82. Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

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#83. Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

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#84. The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

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#85. Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

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#86. There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

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#87. Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

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#88. The current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

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#89. In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

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#90. I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

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#91. I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

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#92. Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

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#93. A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

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