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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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?'

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.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

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Remembers Everything

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

Self Confidence

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

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

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Good Conversation

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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

Useless Knowledge

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.

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.

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

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

If I Was Trying To Destroy This Country, What I Would Do Is Find A Way To Drive Wedges Between All The People, Drive The Debt To An Unsustainable Level, And Then Step Off The Stage As A World Leader And Let Our Enemies Increase While We Decreased Our Capacity As A Military Person. And That's What [hillary Clinton] Doing.

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.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

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

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.

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.

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

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 -

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

These Are Just Things That We Don't Know, And That's Where Trust And Faith Come In.

Trust And Faith

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.

In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

Knowledge Makes People Special. Knowledge Enriches Life Itself.

I Think God's A Pretty Fair Guy.

There Is A Tendency Of People To Try To Make You Believe Only A Few People Are Smart. As A Brain Surgeon, I Know Better Than That.

Let`s Teach Those People That When They Go To Work, They Get Skills, They Meet People, They Get Opportunities, They Get To Climb The Ladder, They Get Much Better Off Than The Person Who`s Just Sitting At Home Receiving Those Things.

I Have No Problem Whatsoever With Allowing Gay People To Live As They Please, As Long As They Don't Try To Impose Their Lifestyle On Everyone Else.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If You're A Christian And You're Running For President And You Want To Make This Into A Theocracy, I'm Not Going To Support You.

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.

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

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

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.

America Became A Great Nation Early On Not Because It Was Flooded With Politicians, But Because It Was Flooded With People Who Understood The Value Of Personal Responsibility, Hard Work, Creativity, Innovation, And That's What Will Get Us On The Right Track Now, As Well.

A Good Surgeon Doesn't Just Concentrate On Technical Ability, But Also On The Appropriateness Of What You're Doing.

Appropriateness

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.

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.

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

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.

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 More I Learn About The Human Body, Our Environment, And The Universe, The More It Increases My Faith.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Under Islamic Law, Homosexuals - Men And Women Alike - Must Be Killed. Women Must Be Subservient. And People Following Other Religions Must Be Killed. I Know That There Are Many Peaceful Muslims Who Do Not Adhere To These Beliefs. But Until These Tenants Are Fully Renounced...i Cannot Advocate Any Muslim Candidate For President.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I Have This Feeling That As Time Goes On, We're Not Getting Any More Civilized, And We Should Be. We're Still Running Around Like The Days Of Genghis Khan. There Are So Many Important, Better Things To Do And We Need To Encourage People To Reach Into The Brighter Side Of Humanity And Not Encourage People To Continue To Glorify The Darker Side.

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.

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

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.

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.

There Is No Job More Important Than Parenting. This I Believe.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Pushing Boundaries

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.

It Seems Like When You're In The Race, They Do Everything They Can To Ignore You, So Maybe Being Out Of The Race [i] Might Get A Little More Attention, We'll See.

When Asked By Glenn Beck If People Should Be Allowed To Own Semi-automatic Weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson Said: “it Depends On Where You Live. I Think If You Live In The Midst Of A Lot Of People, And I’m Afraid That That Semi-automatic Weapon Is Going To Fall Into The Hands Of A Crazy Person, I Would Rather You Not Have It.

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.

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.

And I've Always Said, 'if Two People Think The Same Thing About Everything, One Of Them Isn't Necessary.' We Need To Be Able To Understand That If We're Going To Make Real Progress.

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.

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