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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Carly Fiorina

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Carly Fiorina
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 6
Businessperson
Executive Officer
Politician
Austin
Texas
Cara Carleton Sneed
Change
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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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.
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Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.
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When Iran continues to get away with bad behavior, what do our allies who are Iran's enemies think about us? It is why we cannot stand by while Russia allies itself with Iran. You can't outsource American leadership to Russia. Russia isn't on our side. They're on their side and Iran's side.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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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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Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.
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The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
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Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.
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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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The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.
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Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.
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I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.
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I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.
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We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it.
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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.
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National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
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Politics is different than business.
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