Benjamin Carson Quotes

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .

We 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.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.

A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

I just hated poverty.

I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.