Latest Andrew Sullivan Quotes from Interviews

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• It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Brother, Husband, Mean

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Culture, Ifs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Generations, Born

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sex, Love Is, Thinking

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• My father has been a rock for me every since.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Rocks, Has Beens

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Struggle, Gay, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sex, Believe, I Believe

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Has Beens

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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

  Hatred, Homophobia

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Believe, Conflict

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Catholic

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Prayer, Firsts, Conversation

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Jesus, Journey, Spirit

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Thinking, Rebuttal, Blogs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Thinking, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sleep, Men, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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

  Jobs, Home, Mean

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

• 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 called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Frustrated, Republican

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Stuff, Blogging, Fool

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Andrew Sullivan

  Thinking, Four, Five

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Trying, Want

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.