Quote

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.

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
Taste
Wants
Issues
Ability
Upon
Trying
Love
Insist
Internet

More quotes by Andrew Sullivan

Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
...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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
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.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
Andrew Sullivan
Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.
Andrew Sullivan