Top 180 Carly Fiorina Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.”

— Carly Fiorina

52. “Silos can’t interoperate unless the technology does.”

— Carly Fiorina

53. “There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”

— 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. “A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It’s harder when everybody is against you.”

— Carly Fiorina

56. “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

57. “Don’t think of yourself as a woman in business.”

— Carly Fiorina

58. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

60. “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

61. “Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.”

— Carly Fiorina

62. “When Iran continues to get away with bad behavior, what do our allies who are Iran’s enemies think about us? It is why we cannot stand by while Russia allies itself with Iran. You can’t outsource American leadership to Russia. Russia isn’t on our side. They’re on their side and Iran’s side.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

64. “To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.”

— Carly Fiorina

65. “Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.”

— Carly Fiorina

66. “I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up – regardless of their background – so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.”

— Carly Fiorina

67. “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.”

— Carly Fiorina

68. “I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don’t think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.”

— Carly Fiorina

69. “The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.”

— Carly Fiorina

70. “It’s the federal government’s job to secure the border.”

— Carly Fiorina

71. “A woman’s experience is different from a man’s in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.”

— Carly Fiorina

72. “I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

74. “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

75. “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

76. “When men cut jobs, they’re seen as decisive. When women do, they’re vindictive.”

— Carly Fiorina

77. “I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.”

— Carly Fiorina

78. “We must continue to show tolerance for those whose opinions and sincerely held beliefs differ from our own. We must lead by example, finding a way to respect one another and to celebrate a culture that protects religious freedom while promoting equality under the law.”

— Carly Fiorina

79. “I will reveal to the American people over and over and over again the Clinton way, say what you have to say to get elected, lie as long as you can get away with it.”

— Carly Fiorina

80. “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

81. “Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It’s a big problem for Hillary Clinton.”

— Carly Fiorina

82. “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

83. “Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission.”

— Carly Fiorina

84. “We need to unify our party, we need a real Conservative in the White House, and we need to beat Hillary Clinton to take our country back and keep our nation safe.”

— Carly Fiorina

85. “I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.”

— Carly Fiorina

86. “I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.”

— Carly Fiorina

87. “Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.”

— Carly Fiorina

88. “Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.”

— Carly Fiorina

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “You know, I’m very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I’ve received.”

— Carly Fiorina

93. “The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.”

— Carly Fiorina

94. “You don’t create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.”

— Carly Fiorina

95. “The people are fed up with the political class.”

— Carly Fiorina

96. “Kim Jong-Un is a dangerous leader, without a doubt. And both Republican and Democrat administrations have been completely ineffective in dealing with him. So we must continue to isolate him. We will need China as part of that strategy.”

— Carly Fiorina

97. “Nobody needs to worry about my toughness.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

99. “Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.”

— Carly Fiorina

100. “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