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When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

Carly Fiorina

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Carly Fiorina
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 6
Businessperson
Executive Officer
Politician
Austin
Texas
Cara Carleton Sneed
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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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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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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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 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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Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.
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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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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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What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
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Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.
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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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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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We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that protect citizens and their churches from government intrusion.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.
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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 state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.
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Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.
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It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.
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