CARLY FIORINA

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

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.

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.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

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.

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.

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

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.

I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

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

We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

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.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

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

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

I understand how the economy actually works.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.