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" The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but what I think is there's a lot of fertile ground for good ideas. "

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" It's not about whether we should have a conservative or a liberal. It's about, do we have someone that has the mental acumen to understand what the laws are, and not write laws but defend the laws. That's the whole purpose of three branches of government. "

Dave Rubin

Understand

Purpose

Three

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

" 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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes inaction is worse than action. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

Dave Rubin

Relationships

Screwed

" 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. "

" 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 firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The thing is, Twitter made me - from silly posts about 'Star Wars,' I got fans. "

Dave Rubin

Star

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