Andrew Sullivan Quotes

• From the moment she danced with John Travolta, she became an honorary American.

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• 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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• 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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• 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 reactionaryl.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

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

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

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

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

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

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•  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.

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

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• 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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• 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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Andrew Sullivan (29)

Birth:	10th August, 1963
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Activist, Author, Blogger, Commentator, Editor, Journalist

About

Andrew Michael Sullivan was born in South Godstone, Surrey, England. He is a British author, editor and blogger, resident in the United States. A former editor of The New Republic and the author or editor of six books, Sullivan is an influential blogger and commentator. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in 2000. He eventually moved the blog to various publishing platforms, including Time Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast. In 2013, he switched to an independent, subscription based format. Sullivan earned a Master in Public Administration in 1986 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in government from Harvard in 1990, his dissertation on Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott.

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