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

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" 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 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. "

" As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes. "

" Sometimes inaction is worse than action. "

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

" The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too. "

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

" People are going to say mean things to you. They're going to say things that upset you. They're going to lie to you. They're going to lie about you. You'll survive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed. "

" I was closeted into my mid-twenties and even into my late twenties. It screwed up my relationships; it screwed up things with my family that I've since repaired. "

" I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive. "

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

" Think about your friends on the Left - are they tolerant of people who aren't for gay marriage? Or of people who are pro-life? These used to be just political differences, and now they are a referendum on what type of person you are and whether you can be in someone's life at all. "

" I'm not a huge parade guy myself. "

" You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your freedom. It was your human right. The key part of that is you are free first. "

" The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "