Andrew Sullivan Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

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

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.

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

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

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.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

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

We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.