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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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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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In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Self Confidence

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

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

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.

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

I Just Hated Poverty.

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.

Obviously, Discipline Is Necessary For Children. Training Is Necessary For Children. Just Like If You Want To Train A Vine, You Have To Apply Physical Manipulation To Get It To Go Where You Want It To Go, But As It Learns, Then You Don't Have To Do That.

I Want The Government To Provide The Military So We Don't Get Invaded By Somebody And Destroyed. I Want The Government To Provide The Roads So I Can Get From Point A To B. In Terms Of Taking Care Of My Day To Day Needs, I Want To Do That Myself. I Want My Community To Do That.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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 Would Love Us To Bring Back Our Juedo-christian Values And Begin To Teach Those Things, At A Time Other Than A Political Election.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

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.

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.

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 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.

We Have To Take Isis Oil, Shut Down All Of The Mechanisms Whereby They Can Disperse Money Because They Go After Disaffected Individuals From All Over The Place, And They're Able To Pay Them.

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

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".

I Struggled Academically Throughout Elementary School

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

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.

Look At All Of The Out-of-wedlock Births That Are Going On, Particularly In Our Inner Cities. I Have Been Speaking At A Lot Of The Non-profit Organizations That Support Organizations That Support These Women So That They Don't Have An Abortion, So That They Have The Baby.

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.

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

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

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?

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

[donald Trump] Is Talked About Enormous Loss That We've Had In This Country By Allowing Radical Islamic Extremists To Run Rampant Without Having A Coherent Plan For How To Destroy Them, Not Just To Contain Them, But To Destroy Them. And The Implications Of That For All Families Who Are Losing Service Members Is Significant.

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.

Uninformed People Can Be Easily Manipulated.

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.

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Positive Thinking

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone. I Know People Walk Around With Their Feelings On Their Shoulders Waiting For You To Say Something - Ahh - Did You Hear That? And They Can't Hear Anything Else You Say. The Pc Police Are Out In Force At All Times.

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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.

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

I Got Involved With Classical Music When I Was In High School And It's Followed Me Throughout My Entire Life And Probably Had A Profound Effect On My Life.

Classical Music

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

We Have The Purveyors Of Hatred Who Take Every Single Incident Between People Of Two Races And Try To Make A Race War Out Of It, And Drive Wedges Into People. And This Does Not Need To Be Done.

I'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.

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.

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

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

Pushing Boundaries

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.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Appropriateness

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Trust And Faith

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stop Thinking Of Failing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They Were Saying You Would Be A Tremendous Addition To The Military, And We Can Get You Into West Point With A Full Scholarship. And I Simply Said, I Want To Be A Doctor. I Really Appreciate It.

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

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.

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

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

You Don't Have To Be A Brain Surgeon To Be A Valuable Person. You Become Valuable Because Of The Knowledge That You Have. And That Doesn't Mean You Won't Fail Sometimes. The Important Thing Is To Keep Trying.

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

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.

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

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?'

My Mother Told Me If I Work Hard And I Really Believed In American Principles And I Believed In God, Anything Is Possible. That's Why I'm Not Anxious To Give Away American Values And Principles For The Sake Of Political Correctness.

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.

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.

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.

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

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.

One Of The Reasons Surgeons Have So Much Trouble Separating Siamese Twins Is That Nobody Gets To Do Many Of Them. On The Table, The Anatomy Is So Different From Normal, That You're Constantly Trying To Figure Out, 'can I Cut This? Does This Wire Lead To What?' It's Like Trying To Defuse A Bomb.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

(i'm) The Only One To Take Out Half A Brain, Although You Would Think, If You Go To Washington, That Someone Had Beat Me To It.

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?

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.

You Are What You Think.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

The Government Is Supposed To Respond To The Will Of The People. Not Dictate To The People What They Are Doing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You Have Yourself To Blame.

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.

My Favorite Subject Was Recess. Fortunately For Me, I Had A Mother Who Believed I Was Smart.

Favorite Subject

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?

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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Nobody Can Hinder You From Doing What You Want, If That's What You Set Your Mind To. You Can Always Find A Hook To Hang Excuses On, But They're Only Excuses. You Don't Have Anyone To Blame But Yourself. Nobody Else Makes You Fail.

Doing What You Want

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

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 Grew Up In The Inner City And Have Spent A Lot Of Time There And Have Dealt With A Lot Of Patients From That Area And Recognize That We Cannot Have A Strong Nation If We Have Weak Inner Cities.

Anyone Who Can't Learn From Other People's Mistakes Simply Can't Learn, And That;s All There Is To It. There Is Value In The Wrong Way Of Doing Things. The Knowledge Gained From Errors Contributes To Our Knowledge Base.

I See The Insurance Issue, The Coverage Of People For Healthcare In Our Country As A Huge Moral Issue. The Richest Country In The World To Have 47 Million People Without Health Insurance Is Ridiculous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

I Know A Lot Of People In Washington Would Say, Well, You Know, Indigent People Can't Manage Their Health Savings Account. They're Too Stupid. But They're Not Too Stupid. Somebody Has A Diabetic Foot Ulcer, They Learn Very Quickly Not To Go The Emergency Room Where It Costs Five Times More To Take Care Of It. They Go To The Clinic.

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.

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