Top 180 Carly Fiorina Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

160. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

166. “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

167. “Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

170. “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

171. “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

172. “I have very eclectic tastes.”

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

178. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

186. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

188. “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

189. “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

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Carly Fiorina

192. “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

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