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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
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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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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.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
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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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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.
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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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[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.
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.
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Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
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Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
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The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
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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 relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie if you're wrong, correct do not misrepresent and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.
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