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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 success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.
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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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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
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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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I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.
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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.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore
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I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
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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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I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.
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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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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 do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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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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