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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't do anything in my life as far as I know, or at least consciously, that's based in religion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a classical liberal. A free thinker. "

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