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" Those who only tolerate people they agree with or like aren't actually tolerant. "

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" 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. "

" It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either. "

" I would rather stand for what I believe in than bow down and be loved. "

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

" 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 believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes inaction is worse than action. "

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

" 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. "

" I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "