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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.

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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.

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

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 .

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 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.

Use Pma: Positive Mental Actitude.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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'd Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Got Others To Recognize The Potential That Was Within Them.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen, We Would Already Be In Heaven. And We Are Not There. That's Where Trust And Faith Comes In. You Just Say, "lord, I Don't Understand It. But One Thing I Do Know Is That You Understand It And That You Are In Control And I Trust You."

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.

We Should Use Our Economic Power In Lots Of Different Ways. I Think We Can Use That In Order To Keep [vladimir] Putin Contained, Because He Is A One-horse Show. Energy. And We Have An Abundance Of Energy, But We Have Archaic Energy Exportation Rules. We Need To Get Rid Of Those, Allow Ourselves To Really Make Europe Dependent On Us And Other Parts Of The World Dependent On Us For Energy. Put Him Back In His Little Box Where He Belongs.

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

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

Marriage Is A Very Sacred Institution And Should Not Be Degraded By Allowing Every Other Type Of Relationship To Be Made Equivalent To It.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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Everyone In The World Worth Being Nice To. Because God Never Creates Inferior Human Beings, Each Person Deserves Respect And Dignity.

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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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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.

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'm Referring To Anybody Who Is Trying To Interfere With The Process Of Interfering With What The Will Of The People Are. It Is The People Who Should Make The Decision. And Whoever That Decision Is, The Establishment Needs To Get Behind Them And Push Them, Not Be Going In A Different Direction, There Is No Way That Can Be A Successful Startegy No Matter What You Believe Or Who Is The Candidate.

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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.

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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 -

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

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Success Is Determined Not By Whether Or Not You Face Obstacles, But By Your Reaction To Them. And If You Look At These Obstacles As A Containing Fence, They Become Your Excuse For Failure. If You Look At Them As A Hurdle, Each One Strengthens You For The Next.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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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?'

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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.

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

It's Not What You Do But That Kind Of Job You Do That Makes The Difference.

An Important Verity About Knowledge Is That The Brain Works Most Effectively With Consciously Retained Information. We More Easily Remember What We Want To Recall Later. When We Feed Our Fourteen Billion Brain Cells With Information That Will Enrich Us And Help Others, We Are Really Learning To Think Big.

Some People Say You're Weak Because, You Know, You're Not Loud And You're Not Boisterous And You're Not Rude. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, Look And See What I've Done. And That Speaks Volumes About Strength.

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I Just Happen To Believe That People Are Not Stupid.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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A Great Operation On The Wrong Patient Is Just As Bad As A Horrible Operation On The Right Patient. So, You Have To Have All That Together.

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

It Does Not Matter Where We Come From Or What We Look Like. If We Recognize Our Abilities, Are Willing To Learn And To Use What We Know In Helping Others, We Will Always Have A Place In The World.

Quite Frankly, Having An Uninformed Populace Works Extremely Well, Particularly When You Have A Media That Doesn't Understand Its Responsibility And Feels More Like It's An Arm Of A Political Party. They Can Really Take Advantage Of An Uninformed Populace.

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

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.

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.

We Need To Be On A War Footing. We Need To Understand That Our Nation Is In Grave Danger.

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.

You Have Yourself To Blame.

I First Wanted To Be A Psychiatrist. I Decided Against That In Medical School When I Discovered That Psychiatrists Didn't, In Reality, Do What They Did On Tv.

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.

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

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

I Think People Actually Notice Sometimes The Content Of What One Is Saying Rather Than The Decibel Level At Which He Says It. And A Lot Of Times When People Don't Have A Lot To Say, They Increase The Volume.

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.

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.

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 The Old Days Of America When Communities Were Separated By Hundreds Of Miles, Why Were They Able To Thrive? Because If It Was Harvest Time And The Farmer Was Up In The Tree Picking Apples And Fell Down And Broke His Leg, Everybody Pitched In And Harvested His Crops For Him. If Somebody Got Killed By A Bear, Everybody Took Care Of Their Family.

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.

Those Of Us Who Believe In God And Derive Our Sense Of Right And Wrong And Ethics From God's Word Really Have No Difficulty Whatsoever Defining Where Our Ethics Come From. People Who Believe In Survival Of The Fittest Might Have More Difficulty Deriving Where Their Ethics Come From. A Lot Of Evolutionists Are Very Ethical People.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It Was Very Interesting Having An Opportunity To Talk To The Syrians Themselves. And I Asked Them: What Do You Want? What Is Your Supreme Desire? Their Supreme Desire Was To Be Settled Back In Their Own Country. I Said, "what Can Americans And Other Countries Do?" They Said, "support The Efforts Of Those Who Are Trying To Provide Safety For Us, Including The Jordanians."

Uninformed People Can Be Easily Manipulated.

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 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.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We Need To Reorient People In Terms Of What Real Success Is All About.

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.

The Culture In Which We Live Stresses Looking Out For Number One. Without Adopting Such A Self-centered Value System, We Can Demand The Best Of Ourselves While We Are Extending Our Hands To Help Others.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

A Truly Moral Nation Enacts Policies That Encourage Personal Responsibility And Discourage Self-destructive Behavior By Not Subsidizing People Who Live Irresponsibly And Make Poor Choices.

When You Look At The Way The Pyramids Are Made, With Many Chambers That Are Hermetically Sealed, They Would Have To Be That Way For A Reason. And, You Know, Various Scientists Have Said, Well, You Know, There Were Alien Beings That Came Down, And They Had Special Knowledge, And That's How They Were - You Know, It Doesn't Require An Alien Being When God Is With You.

If Someone Has A Muslim Background And They're Willing To Reject Those Tenets And To Accept The Way Of Life That We Have And Clearly Will Swear To Place Our [american] Constitution Above Their Religion, Then, Of Course, They Will Be Considered Infidels And Heretics, But At Least I Would Then Be Quite Willing To Support Them.

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

Reading Activates And Exercises The Mind. Reading Forces The Mind To Discriminate. From The Beginning, Readers Have To Recognize Letters Printed On The Page, Make Them Into Words, The Words Into Sentences, And The Sentences Into Concepts. Reading Pushes Us To Use Our Imagination And Makes Us More Creatively Inclined.

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

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.

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.

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

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 Pray For Yourself And Just Ask God To Give You Strength.

Praying For You

God Has Opened Many Doors Of Opportunity Throughout My Lifetime, But I Believe The Greatest Of Those Doors Was Allowing Me To Be Born In The United States Of America.

I Believe That Things Are Always Going To Work Out, Even If In The Beginning It Doesn't Look Like They Are Working Out. I Know In The Long Run They Are Going To Work Out, And It's Going To Be Fine.

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'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.

In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

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.

Middle East Has Been In Turmoil For Thousands Of Years. For Us To Think That We're Going To In There And Fix That With A Couple Of Little Bombs And A Few Little Decorations Is Relatively Foolish.

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

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

Pushing Boundaries

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.

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

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

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 Struggled Academically Throughout Elementary School

Elementary School

Just Because Somebody Happens To Disagree With You About Something Doesn't Mean That They Become Your Mortal Enemy And That You Should Try To Destroy Them And Destroy Their Life And Destroy Their Family.

There Comes A Time When People With Values Simply Have To Stand Up. Think About Nazi, Germany. Most Of Those People Did Not Believe In What Hitler Was Doing.

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

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.

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

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.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It. Every Single Time You Lift Off The Bone And Open The Durra And There It Is - The Human Brain, The Thing That Gives A Person A Personality, That Distinguishes Each One Of Us, That There Could Be More Than 6 Billion Of Us Here On This Planet With Brains That Look The Same, But Each One Being Distinctly Different Because Of What Is Going On In That Thing. I'll Never Get Over My Awe Of That.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good Conversation

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.

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