Andrew Sullivan

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that…

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and…

— Andrew Sullivan

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt,…

— Andrew Sullivan

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

— Andrew Sullivan

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned,…

— Andrew Sullivan

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

— Andrew Sullivan

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

— Andrew Sullivan

“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

— Andrew Sullivan

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism…

— Andrew Sullivan

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right…

— Andrew Sullivan

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…

— Andrew Sullivan

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically…

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom…

— Andrew Sullivan

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on…

— Andrew Sullivan

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

— Andrew Sullivan

It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally…

— Andrew Sullivan

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced…

— Andrew Sullivan

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal…

— Andrew Sullivan

Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with…

— Andrew Sullivan

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not…

— Andrew Sullivan

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone…

— Andrew Sullivan

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had…

— Andrew Sullivan