Quotes from Carly Fiorina

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

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.

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.