Quotes By Carly Fiorina

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

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.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

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

I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

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.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

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?

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

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

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

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

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

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

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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.

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.

I certainly support civil unions.

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

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

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.