Top 180 Carly Fiorina Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.”

— Carly Fiorina

102. “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

103. “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

104. “I certainly support civil unions.”

— Carly Fiorina

105. “I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.”

— Carly Fiorina

106. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

109. “It’s that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.”

— Carly Fiorina

110. “Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It’s a principle upon which we were founded.”

— Carly Fiorina

111. “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

112. “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

113. “What is that hair? So yesterday.”

— Carly Fiorina

114. “A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted.”

— Carly Fiorina

115. “I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we’ve rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.”

— Carly Fiorina

116. “The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago.”

— Carly Fiorina

117. “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

118. “Donald Trump you’re never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.”

— Carly Fiorina

119. “I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.”

— Carly Fiorina

120. “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

121. “The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.”

— Carly Fiorina

122. “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

123. “People who have been in and around government and politics their entire lives may not be able to see the truth. Our government must be fundamentally reformed. The system has to be changed. Our politics can no longer tinker on the edges.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

125. “I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

127. “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

128. “I don’t give up on commitments until what I’ve been asked to do is clearly finished.”

— Carly Fiorina

129. “I’ve never thought in terms of ‘men do this’ and ‘women do that.’”

— Carly Fiorina

130. “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

131. “I am a conservative because I know that no one of us is better than any other one of us.”

— Carly Fiorina

132. “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

133. “I need debate and dialogue with others to test my own thinking and to make a decision. I test others’ convictions or opinions by pushing on their arguments and seeing how strongly they will defend them. When challenged, do people shrink away from their own views, or do they stand behind them? When pressed, do people offer more data to support their position, or do they simply repeat the same things in a louder voice?”

— Carly Fiorina

134. “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

135. “You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”

— Carly Fiorina

136. “In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things that the government could not do. The private sector complied. That is what I am suggesting.”

— Carly Fiorina

137. “Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.”

— Carly Fiorina

138. “We also know that ISIS is recruiting who are not in those databases. So of course, we’re going to miss them. And then we now learn that DHS says, “No, we can’t check their social media.””

— Carly Fiorina

139. “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

140. “Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.”

— Carly Fiorina

141. “You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.”

— Carly Fiorina

142. “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.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

144. “We’ve mismanaged going into Iraq.”

— Carly Fiorina

145. “I’m quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.”

— Carly Fiorina

146. “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

147. “The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn’t leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.”

— Carly Fiorina

148. “For me, business is a story about people – what they are capable of when supported and challenged; what they can envision and create – which is why I like the business world.”

— Carly Fiorina

149. “We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.”

— Carly Fiorina

150. “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