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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
Lead
Change
Back
Sometimes
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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.
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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 bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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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.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear.
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Oh, I'm sure I've made my share of (mistakes). I don't think I've made more than my fair share of them, although I think more has been made of the ones that I've made.
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We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.
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People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.
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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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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.
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We need to fix our legal immigration system.
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I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.
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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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Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.
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Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.
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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.
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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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The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.
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I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?
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