Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
Margaret HooverRead
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.
Interpretation
Gender should not impact a woman's capability to be president, as leadership qualities transcend gender.
Margaret Hoover asserts that a woman's potential to lead as president should not be diminished or judged based on her gender. This quote emphasizes the importance of merit and capability over gender stereotypes, advocating for equality and the recognition of women's leadership in traditionally male-dominated roles.
In practice
During a campaign speech focusing on women's rights.
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.
Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
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