Quotes from Carly Fiorina

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

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.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

Everyone truly does have God-given gifts. Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are.

We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

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.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.