--- 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.” title: Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88483d99027f448/6988641d524fc07ec8df48f0/carly.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2015 4:46 PM CUT  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. 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](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2015 4:46 PM CUT 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/ "undefined"), 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. [Read more at Fortune.com](http://fortune.com/2015/09/24/carly-fiorina-president-movie/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/"},"headline":"Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002","datePublished":"2015-09-24T16:46:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:14:40.868Z","description":"She's been thinking about it for a while","url":"https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/","keywords":["2016 Election topic","Carly Fiorina"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88483d99027f448/6988641d524fc07ec8df48f0/carly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88483d99027f448/6988641d524fc07ec8df48f0/carly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","creditText":"Frederic Brown—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4048592/carly-fiorina-woman-president/","name":"Watch Carly Fiorina Talk About the First Female President in 2002"}}]}] ```