Top 100 Benjamin Carson Quotes
#1. I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.
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#2. I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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#3. Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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#4. 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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#5. There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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#6. The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
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#7. Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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#8. If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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#9. We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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#12. 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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#13. White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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#14. 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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#15. I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.
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#16. Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
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#23. Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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#28. 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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#29. I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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#30. I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.
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#31. If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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#32. 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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#33. We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.
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#34. These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.
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#35. 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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#36. (I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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#37. Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
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#38. I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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#39. 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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#40. It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
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#41. 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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#42. Maybe that's how I learned to handle up my deep hurt ... by forgetting.
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#43. Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance,
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
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#48. People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.
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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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#51. 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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#52. Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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#53. We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.
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#54. Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
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#62. I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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#63. Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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#64. I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
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#72. 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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#73. 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
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#77. We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world.
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#82. We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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#83. In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.
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#84. Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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#86. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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#87. 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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#88. Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition.
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#90. Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be
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#91. 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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#92. Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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#93. Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .
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