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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. "
Dave Rubin
Freedom
You
Key
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate. "
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Fate
Control
" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself. "
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Believe
Yourself
" Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society. "
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" I'm not a huge parade guy myself. "
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Parade
Myself
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" If you took one of these One Direction kids, because they basically are kids, my guess is one of them is gay. "
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" 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. "
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Diversity
" 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. "
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Political
Life
Marriage
" 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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Good
People
Think
" 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
Me
Religion
" 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. "
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Understand
Purpose
Three
" 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. "
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Group
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Believe
" Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. "
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Speech
Liberty
Values
" My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson. "
Dave Rubin
Across
Teach
Policy
" Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society. "
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Society
Government
Freedom
" Those who only tolerate people they agree with or like aren't actually tolerant. "
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Who
Like
Agree
" 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. "
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People
" 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. "
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" I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.' "
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Friday
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" 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. "
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Like
Conversation
Laughter
" As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes. "
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Bad
Much
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" 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. "
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Poor
People
" 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. "
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People
Say
Survive
" 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. "
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Comedy
Funny
" I'm not even proud to say this, but I've never voted for a Republican in my entire life. "
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Say
Republican
" 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. "
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You
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