431 Quotes by Ben Carson

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    Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

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    We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

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    I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources of revenue.

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    The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

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