Andrew Sullivan Quotes


"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Minority, Popular, Vote)

"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Love, Successful, Gay, Romantic)

"The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Now, Republicans)

"The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Conscience, Journalism, Profession)

"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Freedom, Right)

"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
(Related: Ideals)

"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
(Related: Family, Gay, Law, Living, Strangers, Will)

"I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: People, Being)

"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?"
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Religion, Ideology)

"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Homosexuality, Weather)

"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Marriage, Politics, Example, Gay, Now)