Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Margaret Hoover
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
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.
The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.
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.
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.
Conservatives believe that a self-governing society depends on individuals taking responsibility for their actions, and those of their family and community. They deride others, especially American liberals, who fall short of this standard, who blame anything other than themselves for personal transgressions or failures.
Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.
Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.
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.
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.
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.
My Republican Party has no choice but to reach out to millennials.
I would never date a guy with short hair.
More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of citizenship, just like their straight brothers and sisters.
I love Jay-Z.
In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.
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.
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.
While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.
I think the Tea Party has brought enormous strength to the Republican Party and I absolutely support its fiscal responsibility message, yes.
Most people aren't Republicans four generations down from a president.
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.
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.
In some ways, Herbert Hoover can be considered a millennial in spirit: young at the turn of the century, aware of America's past but deeply committed to building its future. His greatest passion and highest calling was service to others, and he measured his life's successes not in dollars and votes but in results achieved.
If you think because I'm a pretty girl I can't mow a lawn, I'm offended.
To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.
Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary, he standardized the radio industry so businesses could harness its commercial value. He didn't e-mail my great-grandmother a marriage proposal - but he did cable her one, all the way from Australia.
Conservatives and individualists support policies that favor more freedom for individuals.
Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
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.
Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.
One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.
The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.
Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.
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.
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.
Guys are not going to go see a chic flick when 'Indiana Jones' is playing.
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.
Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits.
Everyone knows Washington is broken.
The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.
Well, generally, I don't like sin taxes at all, because sin taxes and nanny state politics represent the government making a moral judgment on people's individual choices.
What's helpful is develop a self-esteem, feel good about yourself, feel like you're a whole, complete person.
Some conservative groups believe that a person cannot be both conservative and gay. They believe that traditional lives cannot be led by those who have not traditionally been accepted by society.
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.
Less money in your wallet equals less economic freedom.
If Barbie was a real person, she'd be, like, 10 feet tall in order for her legs to be proportionate to her torso.
In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.
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.
People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.
Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'
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.
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.
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.
The rise of Ben Carson is a fascinating case study in grassroots cultivation that's resulted in strong support among evangelicals and women, reflected in the most robust small donor base in the 2016 race.
The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.
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.
There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for the struggles of ordinary people.
The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.
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.
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.
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