Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BEN CARSONCorporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BEN CARSONOur strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.
BEN CARSONI would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
BEN CARSONWe are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
BEN CARSONIf we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
BEN CARSONEconomics is not brain surgery.
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 CARSONThis is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
BEN CARSONYou’re going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn’t necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, ‘Could I have done things to prevent this situation?’
BEN CARSONYou know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
BEN CARSONWe have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
BEN CARSONI 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.
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 CARSONI’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.
BEN CARSONYou need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.
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.
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