Carly's speech at CPAC 2015

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red what you are is god's gift to you what you make of yourself is your gift to god nnj

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that degree has come in handy recently since our president keeps talking about the crusades dnmt

yes Mister president isis indeed wants to drive the whole world back to the Middle Ages but the rest of us moved on about eight

hundred years ago nd while you seek moral equivalence the

world waits for moral clarity and American leadership without a degree in medieval history and philosophy I was unemployable and

so I went to law school I hated it I quit after a single semester and had to go back to work full

time doing what I had done part time to help put myself through school I typed I filed I

answer the phones for a little nine person real estate firm I would eventually become the chief executive of the world's largest technology company eight

screenname and together with the great people of that great company we would double the

size of the business from forty five billion to ninety billion we would triple it's rate of innovation to eleven patents day

and go from a laggard to a leader in every product category and every market segment in

which we competed I know that it is only in this country that a young woman can go from secretary to

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has god given gifts everyone has potential often far more than they realize I

have learned this over and over in my life from my fellow workers in business to

the slums of New Delhi India I have seen it in Norfolk Virginia as I distributed

diapers to young mothers who had the courage to bring their children into the world every life

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leave that this must be a country where everyone has the right to fulfill their potential this is what they meant when they said life liberty

human history because here more things were more possible for more people from more places here

people could fulfill their potential when I was typing in that little company and indeed throughout my career I

have needed someone to take a chance on me what I battled cancer I needed many helping

relied on the strength of our family the solace of our faith but we also were lifted up by