I 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.
BENJAMIN 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.
BENJAMIN CARSONHere is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
BENJAMIN CARSONGod would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
BENJAMIN CARSONBy doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
BENJAMIN CARSONWe 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 CARSONI 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.
BENJAMIN CARSONI like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
BENJAMIN CARSONYou have yourself to blame.
BENJAMIN 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.
BENJAMIN CARSONI think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
BENJAMIN CARSONA truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
BENJAMIN 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.
BENJAMIN CARSONPatients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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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