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.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
The more I'm pushed in a position of leadership and I know I have to be the mouthpiece for so many other people who can't speak for themselves, the more confidence I'm gaining.
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
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