Benjamin Quotes

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

Stop thinking of failing.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

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.