I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
BENJAMIN CARSONThere 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.
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.
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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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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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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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The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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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.
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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.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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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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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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