Margaret Hoover Quotes

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Margaret Hoover

Profession : Author

Birth : December 11, 1977

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.

Margaret Hoover

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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If Barbie was a real person, she'd be, like, 10 feet tall in order for her legs to be proportionate to her torso.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I would never date a guy with short hair.

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

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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.

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Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.

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To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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