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

Carly Fiorina

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Carly Fiorina
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 6
Businessperson
Executive Officer
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Austin
Texas
Cara Carleton Sneed
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We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must shrink the federal government and hold it accountable - and to do that, we need a leader who understands how bureaucracies work and how to cut them down to size.
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Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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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.
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Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.
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We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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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.
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Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
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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.
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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.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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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.
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If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.
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I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.
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