Andrew Sullivan Quotes

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
Andrew Sullivan

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Love, Romantic, Successful

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Andrew Sullivan

Religion, Political, Become

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
Andrew Sullivan

Politics, Successful, Father

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Live, Often, Felt

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
Andrew Sullivan

Life, Gay, Honesty

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Through, Else, Actually

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
Andrew Sullivan

Alone, Remember, Yesterday

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

Enjoy, Around, Disagree

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
Andrew Sullivan

Purge, Constantly, Shedding

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Mind, Someone, Writing

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Best, Person, Friends

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Family, Gay, Law

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

Freedom, Live, Human

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

Marriage, Politics, Gay

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
Andrew Sullivan

Country, Between, American

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Secret, Conscience, Dirty

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
Andrew Sullivan

Again, Meet, York

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

Politics, Good, Friends

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
Andrew Sullivan

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

Humanity, Until, President

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

Good, Travel, Down

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Government, Past, Philosophy

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Friendship, Pain, Gay

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.
Andrew Sullivan

Marriage, Gay, Started

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 10, 1963

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