Quotes By Carly Fiorina

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

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.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

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 bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

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

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.

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.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

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.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

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.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

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

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

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

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.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.