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

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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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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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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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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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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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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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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
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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 reactionary.
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The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
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