Top 180 Carly Fiorina Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.”

— Carly Fiorina

152. “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

153. “We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.”

— Carly Fiorina

154. “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.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

156. “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.”

— Carly Fiorina

157. “People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.”

— Carly Fiorina

158. “Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.”

— Carly Fiorina

159. “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

160. “It’s not a world war yet, but we’re at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.”

— Carly Fiorina

161. “Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.”

— Carly Fiorina

162. “We need to fix our legal immigration system.”

— Carly Fiorina

163. “Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.”

— Carly Fiorina

164. “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

165. “Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, ‘No way.’”

— Carly Fiorina

166. “Well I’m not a novelist. I’ve only written one book and that is a memoir.”

— Carly Fiorina

167. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

169. “When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.”

— Carly Fiorina

170. “All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.”

— Carly Fiorina

171. “I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.”

— Carly Fiorina

172. “I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the ground of her foreign policy mistakes.”

— Carly Fiorina

173. “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

174. “We must work with the Australians, the South Koreans, the Japanese and the Filipinos to contain China. And then we must ask for their support and their help with North Korea. Because believe it or not, China is as concerned about Kim Jong-Un as we are.”

— Carly Fiorina

175. “Look, you need technical skills to run a company.”

— Carly Fiorina

176. “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

177. “The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don’t have a job anymore.”

— Carly Fiorina

178. “I have very eclectic tastes.”

— Carly Fiorina

179. “We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.”

— Carly Fiorina

180. “We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

182. “Well, I’ve been a Republican for all of my voting life.”

— Carly Fiorina

183. “I’m really paying attention. People make up their minds late.”

— Carly Fiorina

184. “We need a leader who won’t be silent – as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been – as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.”

— Carly Fiorina

185. “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

186. “We are a nation founded on a visionary and, at the time, radical idea. That visionary idea is that every human life has potential, and everyone has the right to fulfill his or her potential. That is what the Founders meant when they wrote “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Carly Fiorina

187. “The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton’s behavior.”

— Carly Fiorina

188. “I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.”

— Carly Fiorina

189. “I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.”

— Carly Fiorina

190. “I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.”

— Carly Fiorina

191. “If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.”

— Carly Fiorina

192. “We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

194. “What I have said to people is that I’ve lived the American dream, because I have.”

— Carly Fiorina

195. “Women are not all single-issue voters.”

— Carly Fiorina