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Don't Let Anyone Turn You Into A Slave. You're A Slave If You Let The Media Tell You That Sports And Entertainment Are More Important Than Developing Your Brain.

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Don't Let Anyone Turn You Into A Slave. You're A Slave If You Let The Media Tell You That Sports And Entertainment Are More Important Than Developing Your Brain.

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My Mother Told Me If I Work Hard And I Really Believed In American Principles And I Believed In God, Anything Is Possible. That's Why I'm Not Anxious To Give Away American Values And Principles For The Sake Of Political Correctness.

I Don't Believe That Expressing Your Opinion, Regardless Of Who Is There, Is Being Rude. And It's A Shame That We've Reached A Level In Our Country Where We Think That You Don't Have The Right To Put Your Opinion Out There.

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.

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If 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.all We Would Have To Do Is Be Willing To Provide Them With Some Weaponry, Some Defensive Weaponry.

I'm A Part Of The Gop And Let Me Tell You What My Stance Is. My Stance Is That, We The People Have The Responsibility To Take Care Of The Indigent In Our Society. It's Not The Government's Job. You Can Read The Constitution All You Want, It Never Says That It Is The Government's Job And I Think Where We've Gotten Confused.

I Am Asking The Congress, Which Represents The People, To Declare A War On Isis So That We Can Begin The Process Of Excising That Cancer And Begin The Healing Process, And Bring Peace, Prosperity, And Safety Back To America.

The Point Is, We Can Decry The Dangers We Face Or Ignore Them Or Even Allow Ourselves To Be Paralyzed By Fear.

My Mother Only Had A Third Grade Education, Was Illiterate, Worked As A Domestic 2 To 3 Jobs At A Time, Because She Didn't Want To Be On Welfare, Because She Never Saw People Who Went On Welfare Come Off Of Welfare, And She Just Didn't Want To Have Her Life Controlled In That Fashion.

If You Go And Talk To Most People, They Mean Well But They Don't Have Much Of A Breadth On Education, Of Knowledge Of Understanding What The Real Issues Are And Therefore They Listen To Pundits On Television Who Tell Them What They Are Supposed To Think And They Keep Repeating That Until Pretty Soon They Say, 'oh, Well That Must Be True.'

Say Your Prayers. And I'll Say Mine. Because I Really Think It Helps.

The Doors Of The World Are Opened To People Who Can Read.

If We Acknowledge Our Need For God, He Will Help Us.

Maybe That's How I Learned To Handle My Deep Hurt - By Forgetting.

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another.

God Has Given To Every One Of Us More Than Fourteen Billion Cells And Connections In Our Brain. Now Why Would God Give Us Such A Complex Organ System Unless He Expects Us To Use It?

I Serve God, And My Purpose Is To Please Him, And If God Be For You, Who Can Be Against You?

We Need To Understand That We Are Not Each Others' Enemies In This Country. And It Is Only The Political Class That Derives Its Power By Creating Friction. It Is Only The Media That Derives Its Importance By Creating Friction... That Uses Every Little Thing To Create This Chasm Between People. This Is Not Who We Are.

If We Recognize Our Talents And Use Them Appropriately, And Choose A Field That Uses Those Talents, We Will Rise To The Top Of Our Field.

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another. You Know, There Are Some Of The Things That I Say That Probably Would Be Considered Very Much Non-conservative. But I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think: What Makes Sense? What's Going To Help The American People? What's Going To Give Them What They Need? Not Only In Health Care But In Terms Of Jobs, In Terms Of Education, In Terms Of A Whole Host Of Issues.

Happiness Doesn't Result From What We Get, But From What We Give.

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I'm A Good Neurosugeon. That's Not A Boast But A Way Of Acknowledging The Innate Ability God Has Given To Me. Beginning With Determination And Using My Gifted Hands, I Went On For Training And Sharpening For My Skills.

If I Had A Little Kid In Kindergarten Somewhere, Would Feel Much More Comfortable If I Knew On That Campus There Was A Police Officer Or Somebody Who Was Trained With A Weapon. I Would Feel More Comfortable.

I Got Involved With Classical Music When I Was In High School And It's Followed Me Throughout My Entire Life And Probably Had A Profound Effect On My Life.

Classical Music

Having Grown Up In Dire Poor, The Thing That I Hated The Most In Life Was Poverty.

Our Country Since Its Inception Has Been At War, Every 15 Or 20 Years. But The War That We Are Fighting Against Radical Islamist Jihadists Is One That We Must Win. Our Very Existence Is Dependent Upon That.

Politics Is Corrupting The American Judicial System In Much The Same Way The Judicial System Was Corrupted In Nazi Germany.

We Turned Our Back On Israel, Our Ally. You Know, And A Situation Like That, Of Course [barack]obama's Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything. I Would Shore Up Our Military First, Because If You Don't Get The Military Right, Nothing Else Is Going To Work.

The Reason That I Proposed Health Savings Accounts For Everybody Starting At Birth, Is Because You Very Quickly Accumulate An Amount Of Money That You Can Use For Your Interactions With Those Health Care Providers.

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.

I Like The Idea Of A Proportional Tax. That Way You Pay According To Your Ability.

If You Don't Accept Excuses, Then People Will Stop Giving Them And Will Start Looking For Solutions.

The Outstanding Doctor Constantly Emphasized The Humanitarian Aspect Of Medical Care.

America 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. If You Give Me A Tithe, It Doesn't Matter How Much You Make. If You've Had A Bumper Crop, You Don't Owe Me Triple Tithes. And If You've Had No Crops At All, You Don't Owe Me No Tithes. So There Must Be Something Inherently Fair About It.

Now If You Not Only Support Them Through That Pregnancy, But Now Provide Childcare For Them So They Can Go Back To School And Get Their Ged Or Their Associate's Degree Or Bachelor's Degree Or Their Master's Degree, Learn How To Take Care Of Themselves, Teach Their Baby How To Take Care Of Themselves So That You Break The Cycle Of The Dependency.

Beware The Abuse Of Power. Both By Those We Disagree With, As Well As Those We May Agree With

I Think Of Success As Reaching Beyond Ourselves And Helping Other People In Specific Ways.

If We Set Our Priority "the Removal Of All Risk", We'll Soon Have Sterile, Stagnant, And Unstimulating Learning Environments.

Call It Whatever You Need To Call It To Make It Feel Good To You. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, I've Been In Lots Of Place Growing Up And Listening To People Tell Great Tales Of Sexual Conquest. It Is An Immature Thing To Do -

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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.

Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman. No Group, Be They Gays, Be They Nambla, Be They People Who Believe In Bestiality, It Doesn’t Matter What They Are - They Don’t Get To Change The Definition.

There's A False Narrative That Only The Political Class Has The Wisdom And The Ability To Be Commander-in- Chief. But If You Go Back And You Study The Design Of Our Country, It Was Really Designed For The Citizen Statesman.

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Here's A Nation, One Of The Founding Pillars Was Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Expression. And Yet, We Have Imposed Upon People Restrictions On What They Can Say, On What They Can Think. And The Media Is The Largest Proponent Of This, Crucifying People Who Say Things Really Quite Innocently.

When I Entered High School I Was An A-student, But Not For Long. I Wanted The Fancy Clothes. I Wanted To Hang Out With The Guys. I Went From Being An A-student To A B-student To A C-student, But I Didn't Care. I Was Getting The High Fives And The Low Fives And The Pats On The Back. I Was Cool.

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Resist This War On God, Freedom Of Religion And Freedom Of Speech.

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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. And You Say - 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.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

I'm Not Even Sure I Like Surgery, But I Like What It Does, I Like The Effects. I Like To Be Able To Give People Longevity And Quality Of Life, And I Also Think It's Good For People To Use The Special Gifts And Talents That They Have. And When I Was In Medical School, When I Began To Analyze The Gifts And Talents That I Had, I Realized That Surgery Would Probably Be A Very Good Fit For Me.

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We Don't Know The End From The Beginning The Way That God Does. So When A Child Dies, Sure That Is Incredibly Difficult, And When You Are The Parent, There Is Almost Nothing Anybody Can Say To You That Makes Any Sense.

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.

You're Going To Be Much Less Likely To Point The Finger At Somebody And Create A Huge Brouhaha When It Wasn't Necessary If You Had Stopped And Asked Yourself, 'could I Have Done Things To Prevent This Situation?'

Right Now, The United States Of America Is The Patient. And The Patient Is In Critical Condition And Will Not Be Cured By Political Correctness And Will Not Be Cured By Timidity.

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We Are Not Like Dogs Who Are Kind Of "what Am I Going To Eat Today? Oh, There Is A Rabbit; I Am Going To Go Chase It."

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I Don't Want My Kids To Grow Up With No Father Like I Did. I Came To The Conclusion A While Ago That You Can Work Until Midnight And Not Be Finished Or You Can Work Until 6 Or 7 And Not Be Finished. I Decided I'd Rather Work Until 6 Or 7.

Illogical Thinkers Throw Names And Slurs Around Because They Have No Arguments With Which To Rebut Their Opponents. Rational People Have To Keep Hammering Their Points Home.

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The Government Is Supposed To Respond To The Will Of The People. Not Dictate To The People What They Are Doing.

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As A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, I Frequently Faced Life And Death Situations, And Had To Come Up With The Right Diagnosis, The Right Plan, And Execute That Plan Frequently With Other Colleagues.

You Should See The Eyes Of Some Of Those Children When I Say To Them We're Going To Have To Open Your Head Up And Take Out This Tumor. They're Not Happy About It, Believe Me. And They Don't Like Me Very Much At That Point. But Later On, They Love Me.

Use Pma: Positive Mental Actitude.

I Just Hated Poverty.

So After A While, If People Won't Accept Your Excuses, You Stop Looking For Them.

Always Give Your Best And Try To Figure Out How To Do An Even Better Job.

Maybe That Is The Best Lesson I Learned In My First Semester At Yale, Because If I Had Gone To A Less-demanding School And Continued To Sail Along On The Top, I Am Sure I Would Never Have Attained The Subsequent Achievements In My Life.

I Think Americans Is A Very Special Nation That Was Created So That People Could Be Free. And They Could Be Free To Believe What They Wanted. They Could Be Free To Work As Hard As They Wanted, Knowing That Their Labor Would Accrue To Them And To Their Family, That There Wouldn't Be A Lot Of People Impinging Upon Their Freedom And Telling Them What They Had To Do, And That It Would Be A Nation That Was Representative Of The People, And That It Would Have A Government That Was Representative Of The People Rather Than One That Tried To Rule The People.

Secular Progressivism, Which Attempts To Remove God From The Public Square, Is Not Consistent With The Principles That Established The Usa.

We Have Much More In Common With Other People Than We Have Apart.

I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think What Makes Sense.

Our Strength As A Nation Comes In Our Unity. We Are The United States Of America, Not The Divided States. And Those Who Want To Divide Us Are Trying To Divide Us, And We Shouldn't Let Them Do It.

If We Develop In-depth Knowledge, It Will Enable Us To Give Our Best To Others And Help To Make A Better World.

What Do Lawyers Learn In Law School? They Learn To Win... What We've Got To Start Thinking About Is How Do We Solve Problems.

There Are A Group Of People Who Would Like To Silence Everybody And Have Everyone 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 Someone Has To Be Courageous Enough To Actually Stand Up To The Bullies.

You Can't Allow The Forces Of Political Correction To Shut You Up. I Mean, Why Are People Afraid To Say, 'merry Christmas?' Give Me A Break. If People Don't Like It, Yeah, They Can Go Do Something Else.

When I Treat Other People With Kindness And Love, It Is Part Of My Way Of Paying My Debt To God And The World For The Privilege Of Living On This Planet.

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.

This Is A Country For, Of, And By The People Not For, Of, And By The Government. If We Turn It Over To Them We Cannot Complain About What They're Doing Because This Is A Natural Course Of Men And We Have To Hold Their Feet To The Fire.

Nobody Is Starving On The Streets. We've Always Taken Care Of Them. We Take Care Of Our Own; We Always Have. It Is Not The Government's Responsibility.

I Feel Very Blessed To Have Been Involved With Some Of The Most Complex Surgical Procedures In The History Of The World.

I Would Support Whoever The People Have Chosen. We Have To Abandon The Thinking That There Is A Bunch Of Politically Elite People Who Know What Is Best, Let The People Determine For Themselves Who Is Best.

Tell The Truth. If You Tell The Truth All The Time You Don't Have To Worry Three Months Down The Line About What You Said Three Months Earlier. Truth Is Always The Truth. You Won't Have To Complicate Your Life By Trying To Cover Up.

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.

Anyone Who Can't Learn From Other People's Mistakes Simply Can't Learn, And That;s All There Is To It. There Is Value In The Wrong Way Of Doing Things. The Knowledge Gained From Errors Contributes To Our Knowledge Base.

You Don't Have To Be A Brain Surgeon To Be A Valuable Person. You Become Valuable Because Of The Knowledge That You Have. And That Doesn't Mean You Won't Fail Sometimes. The Important Thing Is To Keep Trying.

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.

The Kind Of Job Doesn't Matter. The Length Of Time On The Job Doesn't Matter... If You Work Hard And Do Your Best, You'll Be Recognized And Move Onward.

If For You The Most Important Thing Is To Make A Lot Of Money, Then You Don't Want To Take A Certain Type Of Risk. If, On Another Hand, The Most Important Thing To You Is To Make People Around You Have A More Fulfilled Life, Then There Is A Different Set Of Things That Are Important To You. Unless You Really Know That About Yourself, You Will Never Be Able To Appropriately Assess Risk.

It's A Very Wise Thing For People To Rationally Sit Down And Look At What The Risks Are Not Only On A Daily Basis, On A Weekly Basis, On A Monthly Basis, On A Yearly Basis, On A Lifetime Basis, And Then Plan One's Life Accordingly.

It Is Absolutely Vital That We Do All We Can To Allow Americans To Practice Their Religious Ways, While Simultaneously Ensuring That No One's Beliefs Infringe Upon Those Of Others. We Should Also Serve As Champions Of Freedom Of Religion Throughout The World.

God Cares About Every Area Of Our Lives, And God Wants Us To Ask For Help.

You Have The Ability To Choose Which Way You Want To Go. You Have To Believe Great Things Are Going To Happen In Your Life. Do Everything You Can - Prepare, Pray And Achieve - To Make It Happen.

I Think God's A Pretty Fair Guy.

Look At All Of The Out-of-wedlock Births That Are Going On, Particularly In Our Inner Cities. I Have Been Speaking At A Lot Of The Non-profit Organizations That Support Organizations That Support These Women So That They Don't Have An Abortion, So That They Have The Baby.

I've Had A Lot Of Experience Building Things, Organizing Things, A National Scholarship Program.

Building Things

Why Would I Want To Run For Congress And Continue To Get Tainted With All The Things That People Get Tainted With As They Come Along The System.

Do We Have A Brain? Than Use It. It's All You Need To Overcome A Problem. That's The Secret. That's My Simple But Powerful Prescription For Life, Love, And Success In A Dangerous World.

Before God,no God,after Him,there Will Be No God.

This Whole Concept Of Boots On The Ground, We've Got A Phobia About Boots On The Ground. If Our Military Experts Say, We Need Boots On The Ground, We Should Put Boots On The Ground And Recognize That There Will Be Boots On The Ground And They'll Be Over Here, And They'll Be Their Boots If We Don't Get Out Of There Now.

Bullies Do Whatever They Can Get Away With And Keep Pushing Boundaries Until They Meet Resistance.

Pushing Boundaries

One Dark Night The Skeletons That They Had Carefully Hidden In An Obscure Closet Appeared, Grabbed Them Around The Throat, And Strangled 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.

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.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

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.

Reading Is The Way Out Of Ignorance, And The Road To Achievement.

She [hillary Clinton] Is The Epitome Of The Progressive - The Secular Progressive Movement. And She Counts On The Fact That People Are Uninformed, The Alinsky Model, Taking Advantage Of Useful Idiots.

You Can Understand Why I'm A Believer. I Have Seen Miracles.

There's Absolutely No Reason At All That Physicians, Scientists, Shouldn't Be Involved In Things That Affect All Of Us.

Things That Hillary Clinton Advocates Are Antithetical To Christian Values: Killing Babies, Redefining Institutions Established By God.

If We Allow Ourselves To Dwell On Negatives, On Hurts, On Mistreatments, We Will Be Negative Thinkers. So Be Open To Positive Thinking, Think Big!

Positive Thinking

Evolution And Creationism Both Require Faith. It's Just A Matter Of Where You Choose To Place That Faith.

One Of The Reasons Surgeons Have So Much Trouble Separating Siamese Twins Is That Nobody Gets To Do Many Of Them. On The Table, The Anatomy Is So Different From Normal, That You're Constantly Trying To Figure Out, 'can I Cut This? Does This Wire Lead To What?' It's Like Trying To Defuse A Bomb.

I Started Reading About People Of Great Accomplishment … And It Dawned On Me Suddenly That The Person Who Has The Most To Do With What Happens In Your Life Is You.

When We Are Confronted By Failure And Mistakes, We Can Leave Them Behind And Go On With Our Lives.

Why Should We Be Letting People Smoke Their Cigars In Their Comfortable Chairs In Raqqa?

The Person Who Has The Most To Do What Happens To You In Life Is You. Not Somebody Else And Not The Environment.

My Experience Has Confirmed The Wisdom Of So Much Of What The Bible Teaches.

It Doesn't Matter If You Come From The Inner City. People Who Fail In Life Are People Who Find Lots Of Excuses. It's Never Too Late For A Person To Recognize That They Have Potential In Themselves.

The Most Important Thing For Me Is Having A Relationship With God. To Know That The Owner, The Creator Of The Universe Loves You, Sent His Son To Die For Your Sins; That's Very Empowering. Knowing Him And Knowing That He Loves Me Gives Me Encouragement And Confidence To Move Forward.

Obviously, Discipline Is Necessary For Children. Training Is Necessary For Children. Just Like If You Want To Train A Vine, You Have To Apply Physical Manipulation To Get It To Go Where You Want It To Go, But As It Learns, Then You Don't Have To Do That.

Knowledge Is The Key That Unlocks All The Doors. You Can Be Green-skinned With Yellow Polka Dots And Come From Mars, But If You Have Knowledge That People Need, Instead Of Beating You, They'll Beat A Path To Your Door.

We Have The World's Best Military, Even Though He (president Barack Obama) Has Done Everything He Can To Diminish It.

You Know, When You Go Into The Store And Buy A Box Of Laundry Detergent, And The Price Has Gone Up - You Know, 50 Cents Because Of Regulations....and Everything Is Costing More Money, And We Are Killing Our People Like This....it's The Evil Government That Is Putting All These Regulations On Us So That We Can't Survive.

There's No Such Thing As Useless Knowledge. You Never Know What Doors It's Going To Open Up For You.

Useless Knowledge

If We Make Every Attempt To Increase Out Knowledge In Order To Use It For Human Good, It Will Make A Difference In Us And In Our World.

(i'm) The Only One To Take Out Half A Brain, Although You Would Think, If You Go To Washington, That Someone Had Beat Me To It.

Joseph Built The Pyramids In Order To Store Grain. Now, All The Archeologists Think That They Were Made For The Pharaoh's Graves. But, You Know, It Would Have To Be Something Awfully Big, When You Stop And Think About It - And I Don't Think It Would Just Disappear Over The Course Of Time - To Store That Much Grain.

'why Risk?' I Responded. 'it Should Be, Why Not To Risk?'

We Are More Than Just Flesh And Bones. 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.

By Reading So Much, My Vocabulary Automatically Improved Along With My Comprehension.

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.

Economic Models

We'll Always Be Safe In Jesus Christ If We Place Our Faith In The Lord.

If We Commit Ourselves To Reading Thus Increasing Our Knowledge, Only God Limits How Far We Can Go In This World.

Don't Let Anyone Turn You Into A Slave. You're A Slave If You Let The Media Tell You That Sports And Entertainment Are More Important Than Developing Your Brain.

We Need To Be Willing To Stand Up And Speak Up For What We Believe.

I've Been Fortunate Enough To Travel To 58 Different Countries And I Thank God Everyday That I Was Born In This Country. The Most Exceptional Country That The World Has Ever Known. And I Want To Make Sure That We Preserve That Exceptionalism For The Next Generation.

If We Would Spend On Education Half The Amount Of Money That We Currently Lavish On Sports And Entertainment, We Could Provide Complete And Free Education For Every Student In This Country.

As Far As The Command Centers Are Concerned In Raqqa And To A Lesser Degree Mosul, Cut Those Off. Do The Same Kind Of Thing That We Did With Sinjar , Working With Our Embedded Special Forces With The Kurds, Shut Off The Supply Route, Soften Them Up, Then We Go In With Specials Ops Followed By Our Air Force To Take Them Over. Those Are Things That Work.

If You Hear How Wonderful You Are Often Enough, You Begin To Believe It, No Matter How You Try To Resist It.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Has The Capacity To Do Almost Anything, But When One Has Special Gifts Or Talents (and Everyone Has) And Takes Advantage Of And Develops These Talents - That Person Is Likely To Excel.

We 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.

Let's Say Somebody Were [in The White House] And They Wanted To Destroy This Nation. I Would Create Division Among The People, Encourage A Culture Of Ridicule For Basic Morality And The Principles That Made And Sustained The Country, Undermine The Financial Stability Of The Nation, And Weaken And Destroy The Military. It Appears Coincidentally That Those Are The Very Things That Are Happening Right Now.

Because 9/11 Is An Isolated Incident. Things That Are Isolated Issues As Opposed To Things That Fundamentally Change The United Sates Of America And Shift Power From The People To The Government. That Is A Huge Shift. You Have To Take A Long-term Look At Something That Fundamentally Changes The Power Structure Of America.

I Have No Problem With Being Vetted. What I Do Have A Problem With Is Being Lied About And Then Putting That As Truth.

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.

You Need An Incredible Amount Of Self-confidence To Go Digging Around In Someone's Brain.

Self Confidence

Ruthless Is Not Necessarily The Word I Would Use, But Tough, Resolute, Understanding What The Problems Are, And Understanding That The Job Of The President Of The United States Is To Protect The People Of This Country And To Do What Is Necessary In Order To Get It Done.

I Don't Worry About Things That Aren't Important.

No Matter How Good You Are At Planning, The Pressure Never Goes Away. So I Don't Fight It. I Feed Off It. I Turn Pressure Into Motivation To Do My Best.

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.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It.

To Think Big And To Use Our Talents Doesn't Mean We Won't Have Difficulties Along The Way. We Will - We All Do... If We Choose To See The Obstacles In Our Path As Barriers, We Stop Trying. "we Can't Win," We Moan. "they Won't Let Us Win."

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

If 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.

You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

We Recognize That North Korea Is In Severe Financial Straits, And They Have Decided To Use Their Resources To Build Their Military, Rather Than To Feed Their People And To Take Care Of The Various Humanitarian Responsibilities That They Have.

Our Schools Too Often Want To Shut People Up So They Can't Talk About Real Solutions. People Who Think Differently Tend To Clam Up Because They Think Something Is Wrong With Their Ideas.

Nobody Can Hinder You From Doing What You Want, If That's What You Set Your Mind To. You Can Always Find A Hook To Hang Excuses On, But They're Only Excuses. You Don't Have Anyone To Blame But Yourself. Nobody Else Makes You Fail.

Doing What You Want

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone.

Military Action Is Never The First Thing That You Jump To. You Always Look At Other Possibilities, Including Economic Sanctions, Tightening The Screws.

Economic Sanctions

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.

What If Someone Hit Us With An Emp, Cyber-attack, And Dirty Bomb All At Once? That Would Be Pretty Bad.

Rather Than Reacting To Every Risk We Hear And See, We Should Make An Effort To Discern Which Ones We Can Do Something About.

I Have Sunshine In My Heart Regardless Of Conditions Around Me.

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. 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.

And I Know You’re Not Supposed To Say ‘nazi Germany,’ But I Don’t Care About Political Correctness. You Know, You Had A Government Using Its Tools To Intimidate The Population. We Now Live In A Society Where People Are Afraid To Say What They Actually Believe.

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.

I Would Like People To Recognize In Looking At My Story That The Person Who Has The Most To Do With What Happens To You Is You. It's Not The Environment, It's Not The Other People Who Were There Trying To Help You Or Trying To Stop You. It's What You Decide To Do And How Much Effort You Put Behind It.

There Are Two Different Donald Trump's. There's The One You See On The Stage And There Is The One Who Is Very Cerebral. He Sits There And Considers Things Very Carefully. You Can Have A Very Good Conversation With Him. And That's The Donald Trump That You'll Going To Start Seeing More And More Of.

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We Have To Destroy Their Caliphate Because That Gives Them Legitimacy To Go Ahead With The Global Jihad. We Have To Take Their Energy Because They Are - Isis Is The Richest Terrorist Organization There Is.

I See The Insurance Issue, The Coverage Of People For Healthcare In Our Country As A Huge Moral Issue. The Richest Country In The World To Have 47 Million People Without Health Insurance Is Ridiculous.

You Are What You Think.

In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

You Have To Try, You Have To Try Everything You Can.

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

Intelligent People Tend To Talk About The Facts. They Don't Sit Around And Call Each Other Names. That's What You Can Find On A Third Grade Playground.

What A Wonderful Thing Is To Be Able To Contribute To The Restoration Of Someone's Health. It's Not Only A Feeling That I'm Worth Something, But That I Have Something To Contribute.

You've Promised That If We Come To You And Ask Something In Faith, That You'll Do It.

I Was Perhaps The Worst Student You Have Ever Seen. You Know, I Thought I Was Stupid, All My Classmates Thought I Was Stupid, So There Was General Agreement.

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