Margaret Hoover Quotes

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Margaret Hoover

Profession : Author

Birth : December 11, 1977

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.

Margaret Hoover

Some Republicans support gay rights, but prefer progress through legislative action or majority rule at the ballot box, rather than judicial action.

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

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?

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

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?

Margaret Hoover

I worked my way through college.

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

I'm not a fan of Ted Cruz at all.

Margaret Hoover

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

Margaret Hoover

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.

Margaret Hoover