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Andrew Sullivan

…when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he’s scraping the barrel.

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[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS – a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave – is now almost conventional wisdom.

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A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

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Al Gore’s problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He’s actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He’s much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

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All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan’s extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

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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.

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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It’s a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it’s even more necessary to keep failing.

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

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Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush’s hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

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

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Quotes by Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

…when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he’s scraping the barrel.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS – a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave – is now almost conventional wisdom.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

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.

Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It’s a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it’s even more necessary to keep failing.

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

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush’s hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

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

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