Andrew Sullivan Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

My father has been a rock for me every since.

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.

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

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

...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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.