Ben Carson Quotes
My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients 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.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Ben Carson
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development