Speech at 2015 CPAC conference: on Civil Rights

Ben Carson: Don't let the PC police label conservatives as extremists

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently issued a begrudging apology to Carson, after it was discovered SPLC had added his name to an extremist watch list that includes members of the KKK, because of his views on marriage and abortion.

Carson chalked that up to what he called the left's love of re-labeling things. "If you're pro-life, than you're anti-woman," he said. "If you're pro-traditional family, than you're a homophobe. If you're white and you oppose a progressive black person, you're racist. And if you're black and you oppose the progressive agenda, and you're pro-life, and you're pro-family, they don't even know what to call you. You end up on some kind of watch list for extremists."

Carly Fiorina: I don't just Tweet about equal pay; I lead on pay standards

At CPAC, she continued the trend of firing at Clinton: "She tweets about women's rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights. She tweets about equal pay for women but won't answer basic questions about her own offices' pay standards--and neither will our President. Hillary may like hashtags. But she doesn't know what leadership means."

At the end of her speech during the question and answer section, Fiorina couldn't help but take one more shot at Clinton during a question about the importance of female candidates: "I will say this, if Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least she would have a hitch in her swing."