--- title: Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About a Female President in 2002 description: Carly Fiorina spoke at a Fortune summit in 2002 and cited "the first time America was presented with the idea of a woman president.” canonical: https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-24T16:46:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:03.460Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002 og:description: She's been thinking about it for a while og:url: https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88483d99027f448/6988641d524fc07ec8df48f0/carly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002 twitter:description: She's been thinking about it for a while twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88483d99027f448/6988641d524fc07ec8df48f0/carly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002 > Sponsored content. 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Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina speaks during the Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on Sept. 16, 2015. Frederic Brown—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 24, 2015 4:46 PM UTC With Hillary Clinton the front-runner for the Democratic nomination and Carly Fiorina surging in the Republican field, the U.S. is as close as it’s ever been to having its first female President. But, [according to a video uncovered by _Fortune_](http://fortune.com/2015/09/24/carly-fiorina-president-movie/), it seems Fiorina has been thinking about it for a while. Thirteen years ago, when Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she spoke at _Fortune_‘s Most Power Women Summit and talked about “the first time America was presented with the idea of a woman president.” She cited the 1964 movie _Kisses For My President_, in which Polly Bergen played the country’s first female Commander in Chief; she resigns her post as President at the end of the film when she becomes pregnant and decides she can’t run the country and care for her family. “If you could harness the energy from all the screams that this movie has evoked or should have evoked from women the past 40 years, you’d probably have enough energy to power California the next 40 years,” Fiorina said of the film. 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