Margaret Hoover
The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.Collection: Equality
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.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Government
In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.Collection: Society
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.
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?
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.
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.
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?
I worked my way through college.
If you think because I'm a pretty girl I can't mow a lawn, I'm offended.
I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.
In my mid-20s I worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You certainly grow up on the defensive when you're related to America's most pilloried 20th-century president.
I'm not a fan of Ted Cruz at all.
I was certainly in the stop Trump camp, but not for anyone.
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 run a gay-rights organization from the Republican side of the aisle.
I can't bring myself to vote for Donald Trump.
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.
The response to Season 1 of 'Firing Line' has been a thrill for everyone involved with the show.
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.
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.
I'm by nature a glass half-full person.
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.
Cable news tends to be talking points - you don't have that much time to substantively unpack an issue.
The G.O.P. needs to fight for women votes because it believes our policies are better for women.
Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.
There are plenty of broken homes that don't have parents.
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.
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.
Americans mostly don't want lower taxes.
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.
As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.
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.
I went to Bryn Mawr College.
I think Americans are looking for like a human element in their politicians. And they all understand, look, they've got kids who do bad things, too.
Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.
The problem is the far left isn't very good at governing.
Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
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 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.
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.
Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.
In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.
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.