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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

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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Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!
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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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I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
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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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Challenge the mind and capture the heart.
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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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