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• In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Attachment, Way, Live Free

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• The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom of religion, of association, of disassociation, and believe they should be treated with respect. I wouldn't dream of drumming them out of the military, firing them for their faith, tearing up their relationships, or taking their children away from them. The favor, alas, is not returned.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Christian, Dream, Children

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• Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hard Work, President, Pay

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Successful, Views

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• When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Popular Vote, Minorities, Tiny

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Humanity, President, Hearing

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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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Men, Legacy

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, War, May

  "Al Gore, Andrew Sullivan, and 'Fifth Column'" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. December 2, 2002.

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• The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

  Andrew Sullivan

  New York, Republican

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• The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Black

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• [Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hate, People, Politics

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Success, Mean, Rising

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Couple, Gay, Law

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  America, Tragedy, Resistance

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Issues, Tea

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• [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Environmental, Politics

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• Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Feels, Stills, Subjects

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Men, Tyrants, Politics

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• When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Talking, People

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• I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Has Beens

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Struggle, Gay, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sex, Believe, I Believe

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hatred, Homophobia

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Thinking, Rebuttal, Blogs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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