Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
Margaret HooverRead
The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.
Interpretation
Limited government and freedom can support equality for all individuals, including LGBT Americans.
This quote emphasizes the alignment between conservative principles of limited government and personal freedom with the movement advocating for full equality for LGBT Americans. It suggests that true liberty includes the protection of rights for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, and that conservative values can coexist with progressive social movements aiming for equality.
In practice
During a political rally, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of supporting LGBT rights within conservative platforms.
Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
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.
To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Kindness makes for much better teamwork.
No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
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