Top 100 Benjamin Carson Quotes
#2. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.
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#3. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
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#4. 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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#5. I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
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#6. You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
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#7. A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
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#8. The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time doesn't matter. If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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#9. She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.
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#10. The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
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#11. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.
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#12. I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
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#13. A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
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#14. America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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#15. There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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#16. I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.
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#17. Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.
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#18. I am asking the Congress, which represents the people, to declare a war on ISIS so that we can begin the process of excising that cancer and begin the healing process, and bring peace, prosperity, and safety back to America.
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#19. I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.
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#20. We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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#21. I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.
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#23. I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.
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#24. Through the use of books I had the whole world at my fee: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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#25. A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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#26. Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be
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#27. My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
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#28. That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
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#30. We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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#31. What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world.
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#32. My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.
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#33. And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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#34. If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.
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#35. It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
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#36. What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.
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#37. God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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#38. We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
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#39. But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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#40. We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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#41. I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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#42. A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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#43. It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.
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#44. If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.
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#45. We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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#46. If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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#47. I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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#48. Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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#49. My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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#50. The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.
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#52. A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
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#53. I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.
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#54. If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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#56. Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance,
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#57. Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame
but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
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#58. Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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#59. Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
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#60. I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.
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#61. These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.
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#62. We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.
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#63. If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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#64. I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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#65. You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
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#67. I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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#68. We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
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#69. So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.
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#70. Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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#71. When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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#72. We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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#73. We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.
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#74. I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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#75. Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
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#76. I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
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#77. The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
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#78. Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
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#79. I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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#81. If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.
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#82. I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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#83. You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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#84. Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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#85. What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".
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#86. We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
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#87. I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.
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#88. The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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#89. I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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#90. We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
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#92. I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
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#93. The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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#94. I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
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#95. It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.
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#96. The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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#97. Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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#98. If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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#99. Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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#100. Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
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