Margaret Hoover Quotes

I’m by nature a glass half-full person.

Conservative faith traditions argue rightly for strict religious protections in the law so that churches, synagogues and mosques aren’t forced to perform ceremonies inconsistent with their religious teachings.

Going into the 2012 election, I worried that without effectively connecting with the youth vote, the GOP risked losing the millennial generation for the rest of their lives.

Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.

Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and social policy. The senator has breathed new life into a national party grasping for traction with young Americans.

I’m always trying to see the forest for the trees. I try to look at broader brushstrokes and focus on what we can be happy about. That’s my nature.

Efforts to support gay rights by GOP state legislators in several states are real and indicative of an increasing realization that expanding equal opportunity and freedom to gay Americans shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

Republicans can take cold comfort in the fact that the surge in millennial support for Obama that Democrats had hoped for in 2012 didn’t turn up.

From his lifetime of experience as a turnaround expert in private equity to his experience with the turnaround mission of the Olympics to his successful term as a blue state GOP governor, Romney can point to a record of bipartisan leadership and achievement that Obama can only talk about.

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

There are plenty of broken homes that don’t have parents.

Women’s role in the household has changed since the women‘s movement. I don’t know if women’s role outside the household has changed. I mean, are more women mowing lawns and fixing shingles and doing electrical work and plumbing?

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

I’m not suggesting that we promote a homosexual lifestyle and we impose it on people, but I am suggesting that it is important to be reflective of our culture and to not kibosh people from the mainstream.

The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.

I would never date a guy with short hair.

Even for most of the GOP’s old-school legislators, there is dawning understanding that opposition to freedom to marry is on the wrong side of history and damaging to the long-term, and increasingly the short-term, prospects of the GOP, especially among independent-minded younger voters.

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way through Stanford‘s ‘pioneer‘ class – the first freshmen at Stanford. He started his mining career in hard labor.

My Republican Party has no choice but to reach out to millennials.

Pragmatic and nonpartisan solutions will increase confidence in law enforcement and support good police while offering more transparency and accountability to citizens who have lost confidence in the justice system.

Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.

I can’t bring myself to vote for Donald Trump.

I think the Tea Party has brought enormous strength to the Republican Party and I absolutely support its fiscal responsibility message, yes.

When an unpopular minority is denied the right to marry, it is indeed the role of the courts to protect the rights of that minority, especially when a majority would deny them.

What’s helpful is develop a self-esteem, feel good about yourself, feel like you’re a whole, complete person.

People represent their constituencies and have particular interests based on who they are and the experiences that have formed them. You don’t have to be a child to be an advocate for children. You don’t have to be a woman to be an advocate for women. You don’t have to be Hispanic to be an advocate for Hispanics.

The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.

Acting isn’t being who you are on screen. It’s pretending that you’re someone else.

I went to Bryn Mawr College.

Less money in your wallet equals less economic freedom.

The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.

We’ve found that people crave a thoughtful exchange of ideas in a long-form interview, which is why the tradition that we have inherited from the original ‘Firing Line’ is relevant again. Our program has impacted the way the public understands our policymakers in Washington and beyond.

The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, her God; not her government, and not the public at large.

I think there’s an extraordinary overlap between – sort of philosophically, and even in terms of their supporters – between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. And that is not a part of the Venn diagram that I relate to or identify with when it comes to being a Republican.

I love Jay-Z.

Hoover’s first emphasis was on the individual, the spark for all innovation and progress. This is a man who, while commerce secretary, standardized our modern economy, from brick sizes to bed sizes, so that housewives would not be frustrated when the sheets that arrived didn’t fit.

I worked on Capitol Hill, I worked in the White House and I’ve worked in politics enough to be familiar with the basic broadstrokes of public policy.

In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which controls Congress.

Surely no nation in the history of the world had ever done so much to help civilians in other nations as America did under Hoover’s guidance.

There’s no problem with a woman being president of the United States if you take her gender as a sole issue. Gender shouldn’t matter.

If you think because I’m a pretty girl I can’t mow a lawn, I’m offended.

In my mid-20s I worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

What I learned from my husband is to assume the best intentions of the people you’re engaging with. We had to do that early in our courtship, in order for me to move past my tribalism.

More Republicans should champion the implementation of body-worn cameras on police officers, requested by Michael Brown‘s family and supported by Republican law enforcement proponent Rudy Giuliani.

Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was a Republican.

Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits.

I run a gay-rights organization from the Republican side of the aisle.

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

The women’s movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.

The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.

I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.

Socially conservative Republican presidential candidates would do best to unite around policies that will both strengthen marriage and protect religious liberties – rather than fruitlessly trying to tell fellow Americans who they can and can’t marry.

Most people aren’t Republicans four generations down from a president.

Hoover was a globalist and a technologist, and he understood America’s rising position in the world. He believed that America could extend its power not just with arms, but also with assistance.

In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.

I was certainly in the stop Trump camp, but not for anyone.

Young people understand that there is not a Social Security trust fund. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, where today‘s millennials are paying for today’s seniors.

I’m not a fan of Ted Cruz at all.

I worked my way through college.

While increasing acceptance of gays marks my generational experience – Ellen DeGeneres is welcomed into the living rooms of millions of Americans daily, an impossibility in even my childhood – many who are older than me fear that if gays and lesbians can marry, what’s next?

Guys are not going to go see a chic flick when ‘Indiana Jones‘ is playing.

I have to object to this notion that children form their sexuality and their sexual identity from their parents. The truth is that scientists, biologists, we don’t know how sexuality is formed in people. And to suggest that people are going to be gay if they’re raised by gay parents is just scientifically unfounded.

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

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