Carly Fiorina Quotes
Very ugly things were said about me.
Fiorina, Carly. Tough Choices: A Memoir. Portfolio, 2006, p. 289.
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
Personal attacks have been made in the Congress ever since that body first met. However, they were infrequent and raised concern when they were made. However, in the late 1980s, there was a series of personal attacks made across the political parties culminating in the resignation of Wright as the Speaker of the House. Some Republicans had objected to the failure to confirm John Tower as Defense Secretary because of his serious alcoholism problem which was made public, and in turn made public some of Wright’s indiscretions. From then on the personal invective and attacks increases and there was retaliation by both parties that went on for decades. At first it was exposures of real incidents but by the 21st century, the attacks were often fabricated. For example, Barack Obama was called a “Socialist Muslim” by Republicans. See {624107}
At the time political parties and some candidates had their own newspapers and attacked their opponents through those rather than directly themselves which would have been seen as gross and undignified, Slander and attacks have been a part of American politics since its inception. The degree and extent reached its pinnacle in the early 21st century.
A meeting had been scheduled in Laos with American President Barak Obama a few days hence. Journalists and advisers told him to be prepared for Obama to criticize him for the over 1500 extrajudicial murders which he had encouraged thus denying his own citizens the most basic of human rights—the rights to live. Détente went into a tirade and made this statement. The United States cancelled the meeting.
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). As chief executive officer of HP from 1999 to 2005, Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company.
