The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.
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.
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.
I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles.
In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.
It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.
Politics is different than business.
Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.
What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.
I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job
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.
People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.
You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.
Oh, I'm sure I've made my share of (mistakes). I don't think I've made more than my fair share of them, although I think more has been made of the ones that I've made.
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
