Benjamin Carson Quotes
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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
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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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I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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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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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
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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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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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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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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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I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
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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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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.
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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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It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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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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It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.