Top 70 Margaret Hoover Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

For conservatives, every policy solution starts with an individual picking oneself up, acknowledging his or her mistakes, as a first step to improving his or her circumstances.

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

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.

Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen’s rights.

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

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.

Americans mostly don’t want lower taxes.

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

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.

I would never date a guy with short hair.

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.

Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits.

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.

Less money in your wallet equals less economic freedom.

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

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.

The response to Season 1 of ‘Firing Line’ has been a thrill for everyone involved with the show.

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.

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

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.

In any civil society, there’s a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can’t dream somebody up out of nothing that’s going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.

While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.

I empathize with the vast majority of cops who keep the peace on our streets and enjoy majority support from their communities across the country.

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

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?

Ben Carson has what Iowa caucus-goers favor – the soft touch and outsider status, and no fear of going after Obamacare and the excesses of Washington.

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.

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

As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.

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

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.

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

Conservatives and individualists support policies that favor more freedom for individuals.

The key to winning millennials is to stick to pragmatic solutions issue by issue. The millennial generation is characterized partly by their desire to see the system work – and they get that this system isn’t working. But they also want to be part of the solution.

Bill O’Reilly’s firing is a welcome step by Fox News and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, by a new generation of leadership trying to modernize the country’s conservative media flagship and change its culture. But it is just a step.

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.

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.

I went to Bryn Mawr College.

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?

You certainly grow up on the defensive when you’re related to America’s most pilloried 20th-century president.

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.

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

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

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

Cable news tends to be talking points – you don’t have that much time to substantively unpack an issue.

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had ‘gone Democrat.’

The G.O.P. needs to fight for women votes because it believes our policies are better for women.

Hoovers didn’t like Democrats because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s libelous partisan attacks on my great-grandfather Herbert Hoover, tethering him to the Great Depression.

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.

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.

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.