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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.

-Benjamin Carson

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I've Been Fortunate Enough

Benjamin Carson

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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.

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In Order To Have Good Health Care You Need A Patient And You Need A Health Care Provider.

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Why Should I Give Someone Else Such Power Over My Life?

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

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.

Knowledge Makes People Special. Knowledge Enriches Life Itself.

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

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.

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Freedom Of Speech

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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.

In My Own Personal Life, God Plays A Great Role In The Risk, Because I Pray Before I Go Into The Operating Room For Every Case, And I Ask Him To Give Me Wisdom, To Help Me To Know What To Do - And Not Only For Operating, But For Everything.

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.

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.

We Create Our Own Destiny By The Way We Do Things. We Have To Take Advantage Of Opportunities And Be Responsible For Our Choices.

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.

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

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.

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.

Through Hard Work, Perseverance And A Faith In God, You Can Live Your Dreams.

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.

Education Is A Fundamental Principle Of What Made America A Success. We Can't Afford To Throw Any Young People Away.

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.

There Is No Such Thing As An Average Human Being. If You Have A Normal Brain, You Are Superior.

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

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.

Through The Use Of Books I Had The Whole World At My Feet: Could Travel Anywhere, Meet Anyone, And Do Anything.

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've Gotten Into This - This Mindset Of Fighting Politically Correct Wars. There Is No Such Thing As A Politically Correct War. The Left, Of Course, Will Say Carson Doesn't Believe In The Geneva Convention, Carson Doesn't Believe In Fighting Stupid Wars. And - And What We Have To Remember Is We Want To Utilize The Tremendous Intellect That We Have In The Military To Win Wars.

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

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.

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.

Stop Thinking Of Failing.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

The Brain Can Process Two Million Bits Of Information Per Second. It Remembers Everything You've Ever Seen, Everything You've Ever Heard.

Remembers Everything

You Know, Many People Have Said That I'm On The Edge And I'm Maverick For Some Of The Big Operations That I've Done. I'm Not At All. I Pray; I Ask God To Give Me Wisdom, 'should I Do It?', Guidance In Terms Of How To Do It, Who To Consult With. All Those Kind Of Things Are Incredibly Important.

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.

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.

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

Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

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.

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

People Spending More Of Their Own Money On Routine Health Care Would Make The System More Competitive And Transparent And Restore The Confidence Between The Patients And The Doctors Without Government Rationing.

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.

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.

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