Dave Rubin Quotes

Dave Rubin

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 26, 1976

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

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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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I don't like Mitt Romney. I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community.

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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.'

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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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I'm a classical liberal. A free thinker.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

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Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

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

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I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.'

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

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