Benjamin Carson on doctors
Benjamin Carson213 quotes“People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.”
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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson 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.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson 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.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson 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.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson In our culture, security has become an obsession.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson This 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.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I’ve seen this over and over in America, too.
Barbara LeeBarbara Lee As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney FrankBarney Frank My tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It’s a great little secret.
Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthy I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.
Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthy The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients … that the art of medicine went to ruin.
Andreas VesaliusAndreas Vesalius After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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