I started out as a secretary. And as I made my way up in the business world, a male-dominated business world, I've had lots of men imply that, um -- I was unfit for decision-making because maybe I was having my period. So I'll say it, OK? when I started this campaign, I was asked on a national television show whether a woman's hormones prevented her from serving in the Oval Office.

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

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When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

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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.

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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

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Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

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I have been tested. My faith has been tested. I have battled breast cancer. I have buried a child. Through it all, the love of my family and my personal relationship with Jesus Christ has seen me through. And on this journey my family and my faith will see me through as well. I will not falter, and I will not shrink from this fight.

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The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

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Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement...Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

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Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

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We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.

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The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

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The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

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Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

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I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over.

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I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

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

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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

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All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?

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