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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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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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.
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Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
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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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If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law and it can and will be violated by strangers.
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The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
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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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Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
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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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Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
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The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.
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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.
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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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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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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
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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.
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