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" Do you know people on the Right who are tolerant of people who are for gay marriage and are pro-choice? I actually do, plenty of them. When there is a disagreement, I see way more people on the Right... more often willing to agree to disagree rather than to de-friend or to smear. "

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" Speaking out, sharing what you think, and expressing yourself - regardless of sexuality or anything else - is the most important thing you can do as a man, as a human. "

Dave Rubin

Important

Yourself

You

" I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long. "

" Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me. "

" Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere. "

" You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate. "

" Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society. "

" Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do. "

" You can Google me, and I'm pretty sure the first thing that comes up is 'gay,' so that's out there, and I'm proud of that. "

Dave Rubin

Proud

You

" My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson. "

" Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. "

" I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities. "

" If you took one of these One Direction kids, because they basically are kids, my guess is one of them is gay. "

" Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their opinions as facts and argue about the endless minutia of a broken Washington, D.C., instead of arming you with real knowledge and new ideas. "

" People who are for diversity of thought, actually, are okay with hearing some opinions that they don't like. I quite literally see none of that on the Left. "

" I got into politics when I was 12, back when George H. W. Bush was running against Michael Dukakis. We did a mock election in my social studies class, and I remember how so much of what was thought of as liberal made sense to me. "

" Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism - this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it - can only destroy; it cannot create. "

" I'm so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy. "

" I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine. "

Dave Rubin

Government

Religion

" I'm not even proud to say this, but I've never voted for a Republican in my entire life. "

" I spent too many years of my life stressing over and struggling with my sexuality. But it was a valuable lesson. I realised that by not sharing how you feel, you become inhibited in every facet of life. "

" I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same. "

" It's not always about winning. If you can, really, just show people - If they're being awful, be less awful. "

" The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance. "

Dave Rubin

Tolerance

Live

" Sometimes inaction is worse than action. "

" One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.' "

" The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended. "

" Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport. "

" Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you're doing it right, it's actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience... the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter. "

Dave Rubin

Conversation

Laughter

" The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist. "

" We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship. "