Fiorina Quotes

#1. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

Kevin Drum

#2. Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is ... zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

Ted Cruz

#3. Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

Jimmy Fallon

#4. If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?

Nicholas Kristof

#5. Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard. I haven't seen that many sad, blank faces in one place since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Drum

#7. So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

Nicolle Wallace

#8. It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.

Gloria Steinem

#9. The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, ran for Senator. This is what she said when she was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2004: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore." I could go on and on and on, but I think we have the point.

Bernie Sanders

#10. When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."

Joe Biden

#11. I love Carly Fiorina's fire; she's feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Nicolle Wallace

#12. Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?

Kevin Drum

#13. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

#14. We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Carly Fiorina

#15. If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others

Carly Fiorina

#17. I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

Carly Fiorina

#18. Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

#19. The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

Carly Fiorina

#20. People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our [the Republicans]party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

Carly Fiorina

#21. Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

Carly Fiorina

#22. The people are fed up with the political class.

Carly Fiorina

#23. As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

Carly Fiorina

#24. The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.

Carly Fiorina

#25. Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles,

Carly Fiorina

#26. Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

Carly Fiorina

#27. I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Carly Fiorina

#28. The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Carly Fiorina

#29. Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Carly Fiorina

#30. I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

Carly Fiorina

#31. I would say that [David] Petraeus and [Hillary] Clinton are being handled very difficultly by this administration over arguably exactly the same issue, which was the handling of classified information over a personal email.

Carly Fiorina

#32. I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.

Carly Fiorina

#33. I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

Carly Fiorina

#34. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

Carly Fiorina

#35. You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

Carly Fiorina

#36. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

#37. Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Carly Fiorina

#38. We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

Carly Fiorina

#39. Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Carly Fiorina

#40. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina

#41. I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Carly Fiorina

#42. The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

Carly Fiorina

#43. I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

Carly Fiorina

#44. Donald Trump would be a better president every day of the week and twice on Sunday rather than Hillary Clinton.

Carly Fiorina

#45. It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

Carly Fiorina

#46. There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

Carly Fiorina

#47. We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that protect citizens and their churches from government intrusion.

Carly Fiorina

#48. People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

Carly Fiorina

#49. But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Carly Fiorina

#50. Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

Carly Fiorina

#51. What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

Carly Fiorina

#52. When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

Carly Fiorina

#53. Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.

Carly Fiorina

#54. What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

Carly Fiorina

#55. I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

Carly Fiorina

#56. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

Carly Fiorina

#57. Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Carly Fiorina

#58. Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

Carly Fiorina

#59. When we miss with all the metadata collection we've had, the San Bernardino couple and the Tsarnaev brothers, what that suggests to me is that we are using the wrong algorithms to search through all this data.

Carly Fiorina

#60. Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

Carly Fiorina

#61. What is that hair? So yesterday.

Carly Fiorina

#62. 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

Carly Fiorina

#63. Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

Carly Fiorina

#64. I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Carly Fiorina

#65. People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

Carly Fiorina

#66. When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

Carly Fiorina

#67. A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Carly Fiorina

#68. I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

Carly Fiorina

#69. I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

Carly Fiorina

#70. To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Carly Fiorina

#71. I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Carly Fiorina

#72. I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

Carly Fiorina

#73. People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure
Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.

Carly Fiorina

#74. We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

Carly Fiorina

#75. We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.

Carly Fiorina

#76. The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

Carly Fiorina

#77. I understand how the economy actually works.

Carly Fiorina

#78. Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

Carly Fiorina

#79. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

#80. Tim Cook has been asked a very specific question, in public by the way, and Tim Cook has refused in public. I don't blame him for that. I will guarantee you that there are all kinds of things that the private sector can be doing to be helpful, and they have not been engaged.

Carly Fiorina

#81. That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

Carly Fiorina

#82. We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

Carly Fiorina

#83. To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

Carly Fiorina

#84. I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

Carly Fiorina

#85. You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Carly Fiorina

#86. If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

Carly Fiorina

#87. Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Carly Fiorina

#88. Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.

Carly Fiorina

#89. Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

Carly Fiorina

#90. Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

Carly Fiorina

#91. I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Carly Fiorina

#92. A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

Carly Fiorina

#93. Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.

Carly Fiorina

#94. Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.

Carly Fiorina

#95. I've traveled around the world.

Carly Fiorina

#96. We need a fearless fighter in the White House - not just to win this election, but also to restore the character of our nation.

Carly Fiorina

#97. When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.

Carly Fiorina

#98. Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.

Carly Fiorina

#99. Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

Carly Fiorina

#100. All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.

Carly Fiorina