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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

Benjamin Carson

I’m a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It’s not the government’s job.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Confused Jobs Responsibility
There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Physicians Reason Scientist
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 CARSON

Cells God Inspirational
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Behind Goes Mistake
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Government Issues
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Military People President
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Airplane Needs Oxygen
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Environment Priorities Risk
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Needs War
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christian Giving Happy Inspirational
Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Prayer Thinking
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Economic Military Needs
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe People Smart
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Enemy Mean Trying
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Normal Special
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Baghdad Giving Strange

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

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