Carly Fiorina Quotes

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Your either accused of being dictatorial or of being weak—occasionally both at the same time. You just have to take your pick.

Now we are governed by gentlemen.

I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented.

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government. Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day. Ever since I took office, my friends in the opposition have been levelling baseless allegations about my foreign trips. Had these trips been a failure, then they would have based their comments on specific issues. When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success!