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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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I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.
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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.
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It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.
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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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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job
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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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We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we miss the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple? It wasn't because we had stopped collected metadata it was because, I think, as someone who comes from the technology world, we were using the wrong algorithms.
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I believe that marriage has a spiritual foundation because only a man and a woman can create life, which is a gift from God. So, while I believe that government should bestow benefits equally, I also believe that government must respect those - like myself - who believe that marriage has a religious foundation.
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The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.
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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
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Margaret Thatcher once said, If you want something talked about, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman.
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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.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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We need to fix our legal immigration system.
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Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.
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[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.
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