My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
BEN CARSONMy favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
BEN CARSONI detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
BEN CARSONSo after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
BEN CARSONI first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn’t, in reality, do what they did on TV.
BEN CARSONMarriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
BEN CARSONWhen I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
BEN CARSONIf God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
BEN CARSONNobody 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.
BEN CARSONEconomics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSONThe Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
BEN CARSONI would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
BEN CARSONIt’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
BEN CARSONCorporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BEN CARSONWell, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
BEN CARSONThere’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
BEN CARSONI started reading about people of great accomplishment… and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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