I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share 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… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
