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Even If You're Bill Gates, You've Got Problems. I'm Sure He Would Probably Easily Give A Few Billion Dollars To Get Rid Of All The Problems That He Has.

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Even If You're Bill Gates, You've Got Problems. I'm Sure He Would Probably Easily Give A Few Billion Dollars To Get Rid Of All The Problems That He Has.

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Occasionally I Talk With People Who See Doctors As People Who Do Nothing But Give Of Themselves And Never Receive From Anyone Else - Especially Not From Their Patients. That Is Totally False. The Longer I Remain In My Profession, The More I Realize How Much I Receive From Those Who Come To Me For Help.

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I Could Easily Have Decided That Life Was Cruel, That Being Black Meant Everything Was Stacked Against Me.

Of Course, No Religious Test For The Presidency - Every Faith Adds To Our National Character.

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.

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.

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

I Am Convinced That Knowledge Is Power - To Overcome The Past, To Change Our Own Situations, To Fight New Obstacles, To Make Better Decisions.

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I Always Pray Before Any Of The Operation. I Think God Help Me Know What To Do.

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.

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.

The Truth Is, The Liberal Policies Of The Elite Class Have Done Little To Improve The Lot Of Those Who Depend So Much On Them. In America's Black Communities, Where The Goodies Have Been Flowing For Decades, Rather Than Seeing Improvements In Terms Of Upward Mobility, We Are Seeing Deteriorating Family Structure, Increases In Violent Crimes, Growing Poverty, And Growing Dependence. Even With Such A Blatant Record Of Failure, There Is Slavish Devotion To The Elite Class Who Continue To Promise More Goodies In Exchange For Votes.

The 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.

But, You Know, We Have These Entrenched Entities - And I'm Talking About Both Republicans And Democrats - Who Believe That When You're Elected To Office, You Become Some Kind Of Member Of The Aristocracy, And That Anyone Who Challenges You Is Attacking You And Is Unpatriotic. This Is Foolishness.

I Began To Realize That Poverty Was Really More Of A Choice Than Anything Else And That I Could Change That. And It Just Really Depended On How Hard I Wanted To Work.

I Think One Of The Keys To Leadership Is Recognizing That Everybody Has Gifts And Talents. A Good Leader Will Learn How To Harness Those Gifts Toward The Same Goal.

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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.

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Maybe That's The Problem. But Whether They've Heard It Of Not. The Issue Is The Train That Is Going Off The Cliff. After We Save The Country, After We Keep The Train From Going Off The Cliff, I Would Welcome, Quite Frankly, A Discussion Of Morality In This Country. I Think It Would Be A Wonderful Thing If We Bring Back Our Judeo-christian Values Once Again. I Think It Could Do Nothing But Help Us. I Would Be All In Favor Of That.

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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.

I Find The Big Bang, Really Quite Fascinating. I Mean, Here You Have All These Highfalutin Scientists And They're Saying It Was This Gigantic Explosion And Everything Came Into Perfect Order. Now These Are The Same Scientists That Go Around Touting The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, Which Is Entropy, Which Says That Things Move Toward A State Of Disorganization.

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.

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

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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.

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.

We Don't Need To Set This Up As We Either Take A Bunch Of Refugees Who Will Be Infiltrated With Terrorists, I Guarantee You. For Them Not To Be Would Be Terrorist Malpractice. And We Need To - To Choose The Right Choice, Not These False Choices.

Successful People Don't Have Fewer Problems. They Have Determined That Nothing Will Stop Them From Going Forward.

I Just Happen To Believe That People Are Not Stupid.

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.

People All Over The Nation Are Starved For Honesty And Common Sense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

It's Very Important For People To Know Themselves And Understand What Their Value System Is, Because If You Don't Know What Your Value System Is, Then You Don't Know What Risks Are Worth Taking And Which Ones Are Worth Avoiding.

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

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.

Being A Doctor At Johns Hopkins Does Not Make Me Any Better In God's Sight Than The Individual Who Has Not Had The Opportunity To Gain Such An Education But Who Still Works Hard.

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

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.

Creativity Is Just Learning To Do Something With A Different Perspective.

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

Freedom Of Speech

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.

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.

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.

I Have To Come To Realize That God Does Not Want To Punish Us, But Rather, To Fulfill Our Lives. God Created Us, Loves Us And Wants To Help Us To Realize Our Potential So That We Can Be Useful To Others.

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.

Compassion, However, Should Mean Providing A Mechanism To Escape Poverty Rather Than Simply Maintaining People In An Impoverished State By Supplying Handouts. By 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.

I'm The Only One To Separate Siamese Twins.the Only One To Operate On Babies While They Were Still In Mother's Womb, The Only One To Take Out Half Of A Brain.but I'm Very Hopeful That I'm Not The Only One Who's Willing To Pick Up The Baton Of Freedom, Because Freedom Is Not Free, And We Must Fight For It Every Day. Every One Of Us Must Fight For It, Because We're Fighting For Our Children And The Next Generation.

The Key Is To Cut Out The Middleman And Empower Both Doctor And Patient With Information About What Things Cost.

But, You Know, When I Look At Somebody Like Hillary Clinton, Who Sits There And Tells Her Daughter And A Government Official That No, This Was A Terrorist Attack, And Then Tells Everybody Else That It Was A Video. Where I Came From, They Call That A Lie.

I Wish The Government Would Read The Constitution. I Think That Would Probably Help Quite A Bit. And Maybe They Did Read It And Maybe They Got Confused When They Read The Preamble Which Says One Of The Duties Is To Promote The General Welfare.

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?'

Whoever Wins In 2016, I'm Pretty Sure It's Going To Be A Republican, I Think They Should Make It Their Goal To Seal That Border Within A Year.

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.

Even If You're Bill Gates, You've Got Problems. I'm Sure He Would Probably Easily Give A Few Billion Dollars To Get Rid Of All The Problems That He Has.

You Have Yourself To Blame.

The Thing That Is Probably Most Important Is Having A Brain, And To Be Able To Figure Things Out And Learn Things Very Rapidly.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I Always Think It Is Kind Of Funny When It Comes To Wisdom, And I Say God Has A Sense Of Humor, Because My Middle Name Is Solomon, And I Love The Book Of Proverbs Which Is Written By Solomon, And I Have Read From The Book Of Proverbs To Start And End Every Day Since I Was 14.

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.

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

Useless Knowledge

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 -

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.

I Would Prefer To Just Continue To Speak About Truth And To Speak About What Makes Sense.

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

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.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We Get Out Of Life What We Put Into It. The Way We Treat Others Is The Way We Ourselves Get Treated.

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.

Every Time I Am Looking Into The Depths Of Somebody's Brain, I'm Thinking, 'this Is What Makes A Person Who They Are. That Structure Contains Memories. Everything That They've Ever Experienced Is Right In There.'

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.

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

If I Speak In The Tongues Of Men And Of Angles, But Am Note Nice, I Am Only A Resounding Gong Or A Clanging Cymbal. If I Have The Gift Of Prophecy And Can Fathom All Mysteries And All Knowledge, And If I Have A Faith That Can Move Mountains, But Am Not Nice, I Am Nothing. If I Give All I Posses To The Poor And Surrender My Body To The Flames, But Am Not Nice, I Gain Nothing.

I Think What's Happening With The Veterans Is A Gift From God To Show Us What Happens When You Take Layers And Layers Of Bureaucracy And Place Them Between The Patients And The Health Care Provider. And If We Can't Get It Right, With The Relatively Small Number Of Veterans, How In The World Are You Going To Do It With The Entire Population?

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 .

Kids Have What I Call A Built-in Hypocrisy Antenna That Comes Up And Blocks Out What You're Saying When You're Being A Hypocrite.

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.

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.

Obamacare Is Really I Think The Worst Thing That Has Happened In This Nation Since Slavery.

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.

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.

No Matter Who You Are,no Matter What You Do-do Not Be Too Big For God.

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

Why 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. And You Get Rid Of The Deductions, You Get Rid Of All The Loopholes.

If We Don't Get The Military Right Nothing Else Matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Law Officials Put Their Lives On The Line Every Single Day For Us, And I Think We Also Owe Them A Degree Of Respect.

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.

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.

Stop Thinking Of Failing.

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.

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.

Everybody Has Barriers And Obstacles. If You Look At Them As Containing Fences That Don't Allow You To Advance, Then You're Going To Be A Failure. If You Look At Them As Hurdles That Strengthen You Each Time You Go Over One, Then You're Going To Be A Success.

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.

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

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.

I'm Convinced That We All Harvest The Fruits Of Our Labors.

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

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

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.

Over The Years My Mother's Steadfast Faith In God Has Inspired Me, Particularly When I Had To Perform Extremely Difficult Surgical Procedures Or When I Found Myself Faced With My Own Medical Scare.

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.

I Always Pray For God's Guidance In My Life And He Always Provides It. He Opens The Right Doors He Shuts The Right Doors. And I Have Tremendous Faith In Him. He Just Guided My Career In An Amazing Way.

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.

I Would Love To See Music Reinstated As An Essential Part Of Schooling. The Culture That It Brings; The Knowledge That It Brings. Just Learning How To Read Music Requires Metrics, And I Think That Helps You With Mathematics. A Lot Of Scientists And Doctors Have A Musical Background - It's Very Interesting.

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.

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.

I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen We Would Already Be In Heaven, And We Are Not There.

Our Friends Can't Trust Us Anymore. You Know, Ukraine Was A Nuclear-armed State. They Gave Away Their Nuclear Arms With The Understanding That We Would Protect Them. We Won't Even Give Them Offensive Weapons.

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

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