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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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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
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Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
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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.
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The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
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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.
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I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
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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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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.
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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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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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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
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...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
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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.
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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.
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The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
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We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going 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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