Top 70 Andrew Sullivan Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Andrew Sullivan

2. “I’m gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I’m happy.”

— Andrew Sullivan

3. “For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.”

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

5. “You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.”

— Andrew Sullivan

6. “Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.”

— Andrew Sullivan

7. “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

8. “When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.”

— Andrew Sullivan

9. “I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.”

— Andrew Sullivan

10. “The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they’re called Republicans.”

— Andrew Sullivan

11. “To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.”

— Andrew Sullivan

12. “A mind is a wonderful thing to change.”

— Andrew Sullivan

13. “I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten me or my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?”

— Andrew Sullivan

14. “When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn’t long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.”

— Andrew Sullivan

15. “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

16. “I’m openly gay because I’m a Catholic.”

— Andrew Sullivan

17. “It is not an opinion that “enhanced interrogation techniques” are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.”

— Andrew Sullivan

18. “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.”

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

20. “In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.”

— Andrew Sullivan

21. “How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?”

— Andrew Sullivan

22. “I purge compulsively. I’m constantly shedding things.”

— Andrew Sullivan

23. “My father has been a rock for me every since.”

— Andrew Sullivan

24. “The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.”

— Andrew Sullivan

25. “The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.”

— Andrew Sullivan

26. “Personally, I’d rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I’d love to hang with Bush.”

— Andrew Sullivan

27. “Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.”

— Andrew Sullivan

28. “I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.”

— Andrew Sullivan

29. “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

30. “I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.”

— Andrew Sullivan

31. “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 a fifth column.”

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

33. “I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.”

— Andrew Sullivan

34. “I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.”

— Andrew Sullivan

35. “Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.”

— Andrew Sullivan

36. “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

37. “The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It’s coming for the anti-war movement.”

— Andrew Sullivan

38. “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.”

— Andrew Sullivan

39. “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

40. “The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.”

— Andrew Sullivan

41. “I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.”

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

43. “The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.”

— Andrew Sullivan

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

— Andrew Sullivan

45. “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

46. “Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.”

— Andrew Sullivan

47. “I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.”

— Andrew Sullivan

48. “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

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

— Andrew Sullivan

50. “Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.”

— Andrew Sullivan