I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

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?

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

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

I have very eclectic tastes.

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

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.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

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.

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'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'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

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.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

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

I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

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.

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

I've traveled around the world.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

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.

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

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

I certainly support civil unions.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

Very ugly things were said about me.

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.

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.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

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

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

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

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.