Andrew Sullivan Quotes

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

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.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something – there’s something wrong with them. They’re not really thinking.

…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.

Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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.

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?

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.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere – and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?