Quotes from Margaret Hoover

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.

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.

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

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.

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.

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

Less money in your wallet equals less economic freedom.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

That something that really concerns me because I have good reason to believe and be hopeful, rather, this was the best posture of any Republican in history towards LGBTQ issues.

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

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