Quotes from Margaret Hoover

I think the Tea Party has brought enormous strength to the Republican Party and I absolutely support its fiscal responsibility message, yes.

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

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.

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'm not a fan of Ted Cruz at all.

The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.

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.

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.

Conservatives and individualists support policies that favor more freedom for individuals.

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.

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

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

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.

As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

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

I'm by nature a glass half-full person.

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.

Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

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 problem is the far left isn't very good at governing.

I would never date a guy with short hair.

The response to Season 1 of 'Firing Line' has been a thrill for everyone involved with the show.

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.