Benjamin Carson Quotes
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There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.
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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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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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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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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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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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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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The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.
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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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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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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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I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.