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A Lot Of People Who Go Into Prison Go Into Prison Straight - And When They Come Out, They're Gay.

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 Acknowledge Our Need For God, He Will Help Us.

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.

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.

No One Is Ever Better Off With Dictators But There Comes A Time You Know, When You're On An Airplane, They Always Say, "in Case Of An Emergency Oxygen Masks Will Drop Down. Put Yours On First And Then Administer Help To Your Neighbor." We Need Oxygen Right Now.

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."

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.

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.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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.'

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I Wouldn't Go To War Over Ukraine.

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

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

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.

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.

I Detest Politics, To Be Honest With You. It's A Cesspool. And I Don't Think I Would Fare Well In That Cesspool Because I Don't Believe In Political Correctness And I Certainly Don't Believe In Dishonesty.

We Should Be Concerned Not Only About The Health Of Individual Patients, But Also The Health Of Our Entire Society.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If You Don't Have Anything Useful To Say Then You Attack People. If You Feel That Your House Of Cards Has Been Discovered And Is Starting To Come Unraveled, You Become Very Desperate. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 Came Away With The Idea That Respect Is Really The Solution. We Need To Teach Young People To Respect Authority - Particularly, Respect The Law.

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.

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

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

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.

You Know, I'm A Physician. I Like To Diagnose Things. And, You Know, I've Diagnosed Some Pretty, Pretty Significant Issues That I Think A Lot Of People Resonate With.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Have Sunshine In My Heart Regardless Of Conditions Around Me.

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.

Use Pma: Positive Mental Actitude.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There's No Question That As Science, Knowledge And Technology Advance, That We Will Attempt To Do More Significant Things. And There's No Question That We Will Always Have To Temper Those Things With Ethics.

Significant Things

I've Had Experiences In My Life That Leave No Doubt In My Mind About The Fact That God Exists. I'm Quite Willing To Debate People Who Don't Think So Because I Want Them To Explain To Me How Did Our Solar System Get So Organized And How Is The Universe So Complex And Yet Well-organized That We Can Predict 70 Years Hence When A Comet Is Coming?

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.

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 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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

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

I Hope We, The American People, Can Come To The Understanding That We Are Not Each Other's Enemies. The Enemies Are Those Who Are Stoking The Flames Of Division, Trying To Divide Us Into Every Category.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Came To Realize That If People Could Make Me Angry They Could Could Control Me. Why Should I Give Someone Else Such Power Over My Life?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We Have A War On Women, Race Wars. Income Wars, Age Wars, Religious Wars, Anything You Can Imagine. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand It. And It's Going To Be Up To Us, To People, To Begin The Focus On The Positive Things, On The Things That We Have In Common And Stop Listening To Those Who Are Stoking The Fires Of Division.

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

So If There Were A Container Of Contaminated Urine, And Somehow It Managed To Find Its Way To Someplace A Lot Of Damage Could Be Done. Someone Comes Up To A Lab Worker. He Knows He’s Got The Urine. ‘how Would You Like To Have A Million Dollars?’ … Such Things Have Been Known To Happen.

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

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

Christian Inspirational

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.

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.

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.

I Do Not Want To Get Rid Of The Safety Net, I Want To Get Rid Of Dependency.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Just Hated Poverty.

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

Praying For You

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Here Is The Treasure Chest Of The World - The Public Library, Or A Bookstore.

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.

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.

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?

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 Never Had Money For Anything. But I Tell You What Did Really Work - Books. Between The Covers Of Those Books I Could Go Anyplace, I Could Be Anybody, I Could Do Anything.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

You Are What You Think.

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

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.

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.

We're Not Planning For The Future. If We Continue To Spend Ourselves Into Oblivion, We Are Going To Destroy This Nation.

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.

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."

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

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

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.

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

I Think God's A Pretty Fair Guy.

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.

People Are Simply Not Willing To Look At Their Problems Honestly And Admit That They Have Problems.

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.

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

Pushing Boundaries

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.

Our Children Need To See And Hear About More Black Role Models In Many Fields So They Can Make Better Choices.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Knowledge And Power

If We Can Redefine Marriage As Between Two Men Or Two Women Or Any Other Way Based On Social Pressures As Opposed To Between A Man And A Woman, We Will Continue To Redefine It In Any Way That We Wish, Which Is A Slippery Slope With A Disastrous Ending, As Witnessed In The Dramatic Fall Of The Roman Empire.

What Is Important - What I Consider Success - Is That We Make A Contribution To Our World.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've Gotten Literally Thousands Of Contacts From People Across The Country - And The Most Poignant Ones Being Elderly People - Who Said I Had Given Up On America And I Was Just Waiting To Die.

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

Building Things

We Need To Start Thinking About The Needs Of The American People Before We Go And Solve Everybody Else's Problems.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Stop Thinking Of Failing.

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 Actually Don't Think That I'm That Much Smarter Than Anybody Else. It's Just That I Frequently Just Seem To Know What To Do, And I Think That's Wisdom.

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

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.

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

Cancer Can Be Attacked Directly By Metabolic Enzymes And Then Be Assisted By The Enzyme Diet Programme. The Second Greatest Cancer Breakthrough Of The 20th Century Is The Metabolic Organic Effect On Malignant Tumours Of Correcting The Body Fluid Ph To A Non-acidic Ph 7.1 To 7.5. A Neutral Ph 7.0 Resists Cancer Formation. An Acid Body Fluid Ph Of 6.44 And Below Permits Tumours To Biochemically Become Malignant. At Ph 7.5 Cancer May Become Inactive; At 8.5 Tumours May Disintegrate.

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.

What The Muslim Brotherhood Said In The Explanatory Memorandum That Was Discovered During The Holy Land Foundation Trial Was That, "they Will Take Advantage Of Our Pc Attitude To Get Us".

Even If Somebody Disagrees With You, Their Life Is Still Valuable.

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.

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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