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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.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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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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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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...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.
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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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.
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What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.
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