Quote

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.

Andrew Sullivan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
Author
Blogger
Editor
Editor-In-Chief
Journalist
Pundit
Writer
Godstone
Surrey
Andrew Michael Sullivan
Mean
Failing
Indefinite
Even
Start
Disorder
President
Creates
Use
Chaos
War
Keeps
Means
Argument
Keep
Necessary
Giving
Failure
Prolonging

More quotes by Andrew Sullivan

Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I like the pluralism of modernity it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Andrew Sullivan
Image
For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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
Image
Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
My father has been a rock for me every since.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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
Image
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.
Andrew Sullivan