Dave Rubin Quotes

Dave Rubin

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 26, 1976

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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