Fiorina's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

Carly Fiorina

#3. My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Carly Fiorina

#4. There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

Carly Fiorina

#5. There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.

Carly Fiorina

#6. Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

Carly Fiorina

#7. I'm tired of women who are conservative like me, being dismissed by others because we don't agree with them. And I think it's time to take that word back for all women, not just for those who believe in the litany of the left.

Carly Fiorina

#8. I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

Carly Fiorina

#9. You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

Carly Fiorina

#10. 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

#11. Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

Carly Fiorina

#12. It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

Carly Fiorina

#13. 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

#14. I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the grounds of her lies and lack of trustworthiness, whether that's about e-mails, and servers and Benghazi.

Carly Fiorina

#15. We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

Carly Fiorina

#17. Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency ... She's not the woman for the White House.

Carly Fiorina

#18. The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'

Carly Fiorina

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#27. Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

Carly Fiorina

#28. I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

Carly Fiorina

#29. When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Carly Fiorina

#30. I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

Carly Fiorina

#31. My job is to continue to work very hard, to make sure the American people understand who I am, what I believe in, what I'll fight for. It's why I have been so accessible to the press.

Carly Fiorina

#32. 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

#33. You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Carly Fiorina

#34. A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

Carly Fiorina

#35. It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

Carly Fiorina

#36. The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.

Carly Fiorina

#37. I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

Carly Fiorina

#38. I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Carly Fiorina

#39. China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#41. Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

Carly Fiorina

#42. Donald Trump can't beat Hillary Clinton, I think it's very clear, and she doesn't want to run against me, because I can beat her, because I will fight her and force her to fight on ground that she will lose on.

Carly Fiorina

#43. We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

Carly Fiorina

#44. I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.

Carly Fiorina

#45. As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

Carly Fiorina

#46. Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

Carly Fiorina

#47. The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

Carly Fiorina

#48. For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it.

Carly Fiorina

#49. Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.

Carly Fiorina

#50. Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

Carly Fiorina

#51. Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

Carly Fiorina

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

#82. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

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

Carly Fiorina

#93. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

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

Carly Fiorina

#100. 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