Benjamin Carson Quotes

“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”

— Benjamin Carson

“It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.”

— Benjamin Carson

We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

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I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."

— Benjamin Carson

“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.”

— Benjamin Carson

“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.”

— Benjamin Carson

“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.”

— Benjamin Carson

“When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.”

— Benjamin Carson

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

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“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.”

— Benjamin Carson

“(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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“If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.”

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Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

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“If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.”

— Benjamin Carson

“I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.”

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“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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“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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“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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“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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“You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.”

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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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“If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.”

— Benjamin Carson

“I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.”

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“In our culture, security has become an obsession.”

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“Maybe that's how I learned to handle up my deep hurt ... by forgetting.”

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“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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“We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.”

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“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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“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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“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”

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“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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“We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.”

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No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

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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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We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.

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“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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“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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“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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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 for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.”

— Benjamin Carson

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

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“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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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

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“I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting.”

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“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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“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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“The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.”

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If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.

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“I don't worry about things that aren't important.”

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These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

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