Margaret Hoover

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

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

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 triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.

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.

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.

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

More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of citizenship, just like their straight brothers and sisters.

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.