Quotes from Margaret Hoover

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.

From his lifetime of experience as a turnaround expert in private equity to his experience with the turnaround mission of the Olympics to his successful term as a blue state GOP governor, Romney can point to a record of bipartisan leadership and achievement that Obama can only talk about.

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

Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits.

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.

In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.

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.

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.

Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.

My Republican Party has no choice but to reach out to millennials.

Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.

Socially conservative Republican presidential candidates would do best to unite around policies that will both strengthen marriage and protect religious liberties - rather than fruitlessly trying to tell fellow Americans who they can and can't marry.

Women can have their own kids and not have a husband or not have a partner.

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.

Ben Carson has what Iowa caucus-goers favor - the soft touch and outsider status, and no fear of going after Obamacare and the excesses of Washington.

While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.

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.

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

The rise of Ben Carson is a fascinating case study in grassroots cultivation that's resulted in strong support among evangelicals and women, reflected in the most robust small donor base in the 2016 race.

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.

I empathize with the vast majority of cops who keep the peace on our streets and enjoy majority support from their communities across the country.

Some conservative groups believe that a person cannot be both conservative and gay. They believe that traditional lives cannot be led by those who have not traditionally been accepted by society.

I can't bring myself to vote for Donald Trump.

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