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Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. is a retired American neurosurgeon who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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First of all, I didn't describe transgender women that way, i was relating a story that a women's group told me about big, hairy men -- who are not transgender women, by the way -- coming into your facility and having to be accepted because of the rules that were in place.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

Your letter seeks federal dollars for California from hardworking American taxpayers but fails to admit that your state and local policies have played a major role in the current crisis.

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Found on Reuters 4 months ago US News

I expect criticism. We don't talk about REOs anymore, we talk about foreclosed properties. I can honestly say there has not been a single conversation I've had since I've been here where we talked about REOs, do I know what they are ? Of course. Could I remember what the' O' was at that particular moment ? No. I couldn't.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

It's silly, you know, when we engage in,' ha, gotcha' stuff, when we have such big policy issues to deal with, and that's what I want to talk about.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

My best message is to ask yourself : What is your goal in life, and what is your goal for your children ? and how can you best achieve that, are you going to achieve that under the current system, or is there a better system that might be more effective ?

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

They were very, very smart, clever, but they were trapped in a system.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

It took a month to actually find out who actually signed off on that, but the important thing is there were financial controls that were necessary that were not in place. We have put those in place. And the other important thing is that the order was cancelled with no consequences. So not a single penny that the taxpayers have to pay.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

We’re removing all those kinds of perverse disincentives.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they'll be right back up there, and you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they'll work their way right back down to the bottom.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

There were other immigrants who came in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less, but they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land, and do you know of all the nations in the world, this one, the United States of America, is the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people to realize their dream. And this is our opportunity to enhance that dream.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

You know Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

During slavery -- and I know that's one of those words you're not supposed to say, but I'm saying it -- during slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to the slave, what if the abolitionists had said, 'I don't believe in slavery, I think it's wrong, but you guys do whatever you want to do?

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Recognize that a lot of money is going to be saved by enforcing our borders, by not, you know, giving various types of benefits to people who are here illegally, that money is money that we otherwise would not have had and that can be applied to the wall and various other things. That’s I believe the spirit in which that comment is made. I don't think Mexico is going to write a check out and say here, pay for the wall.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

And I think you're going to see him focusing much more on the issues and on his opponent, and not allowing himself to be dragged off into the bushes.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Now is the time for us to rise up and take America back.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

A quarter of a century ago, another Clinton was running for the White House, and it was the entrance of a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, that made it possible for him to win, wouldn’t it be ironic if the same thing happened this time?

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

He does understand that at a certain level but he has a difficult time not responding. If he can just get beyond that and learn how to bite his tongue and redirect people to something that is important, it will show a level of statesmanship that I think will give a lot of people confidence.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

There's no question that there would be a lot of turmoil if the establishment tries to thwart the will of the people.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Even if Donald Trump turns out not to be such a great president, which I don't think is the case, I think he's going to surround himself with really good people, but even if he didn't, we're only looking at four years as opposed to multiple generations, and perhaps the loss of the American dream forever.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

There are two different Donald Trumps: there's the one you see on the stage and there's the one who's very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

There's the Donald Trump that you see on television and who gets out in front of big audiences, and there's the Donald Trump behind the scenes, they're not the same person. One's very much an entertainer, and one is actually a thinking individual.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We buried the hatchet. That was political stuff, i have found in talking with him, that there's a lot more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there was.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

He's actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America, there's two different Donald Trump Trumps. There's the one you see on stage and the one that's very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

What I've been seeing recently is political operatives... once again trying to assert themselves and trying to thwart the will of the people, i find that to be an extraordinarily dangerous place right now. News of the endorsement broke Thursday, and the real estate mogul confirmed Carson's support during a GOP debate hosted by CNN.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I am confident that the five remaining candidates can rise above the sophomoric attacks of past encounters and have a serious discussion about substantive issues and how we will lead our nation forward toward a more prosperous and secure future, america's children and grandchildren are depending on us to fight for them and future generations, not fight each other.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If we are to defeat our Democratic opponent in the general election this November, we must reach an agreement together with each other that we will not succumb to the media's desire for a fight on the stage in Detroit.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

A lot of times, it's sitting under your nose and they don't recognize it, there's always a possibility that people will awaken and recognize that just what they were asking for, I have presented for them -- someone who is honest. They can't find any scandals. All the lies that have been told have been debunked.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Many of my social media fans are begging me not to get out, continue to support us tremendously and economically, there's really no reason to disregard what they have to say.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

There's always a possibility that people will awaken and recognize that just what they were asking for, I have presented for them -- someone who is honest. They can't find any scandals. All the lies that have been told have been debunked. many of my social media fans are begging me not to get out, continue to support us tremendously and economically.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I don't think it's useful to divulge that because they would be certainly unhappy if I did.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

There's really no reason to disregard what they have to say.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Before the barrage of attacks on me occurred, I was beating Trump head-to-head, Hillary head-to-head and there are those who didn't like that very much. And the people are the only ones who can rectify the situation.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It doesn't really matter. You could talk to 10 people and they'll say you have to do it here and you have to do it now. That's just so irrelevant, what's relevant is what direction are you going in. How much support do you have and what are you trying to accomplish.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Well, this is in the state of Sen. (Ted) Cruz, so obviously he needs to do very well in his own state.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but I also recognize that his experience and my experience are night-and-day different. He didn't grow up like I grew up by any stretch of the imagination, he's an 'African' American. He was, you know, raised white.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Obviously, things have improved tremendously since that time, the morale is much better.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

. Warren Holstein( @WarrenHolstein) said.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Anybody who is sensible knows that the way that he was brought up is very different from the way most black people in this country are brought up.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

We've made some advances in that kind of science.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but I also recognize that his experience and my experience are night-and-day different. He didn't grow up like I grew up by any stretch of the imagination, not even close.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I think the way that I'm treated, you know, by the left is racism, because they assume because you're black, you have to think a certain way. And if you don't think that way, you're 'Uncle Tom,' you're worthy of every horrible epithet they can come up with; whereas, if I weren't black, then I would just be a Republican.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Because they assume because you're black, you have to think a certain way. And if you don't think that way, you're 'Uncle Tom,' you're worthy of every horrible epithet they can come up with; whereas, if I weren't black, then I would just be a Republican. i don't find any particular problem being an African-American in the Republican Party. The people??I know that in the progressive side of things, they like to say that the Republicans are racist. I know that. I haven't experienced that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I don't find any particular problem being an African-American in the Republican Party. The people??I know that in the progressive side of things, they like to say that the Republicans are racist. I know that. I haven't experienced that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

But that is not an un-Christian thing to do to make sure that people don't come across our border illegally. That's a just thing to do.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I would not personally judge whether or not someone is a Christian. I am a strong Christian myself, and as such do not pass judgments on others' personal beliefs.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

I like to win, and I'll tell you, it relaxes me. When I would come home from a busy day of surgery, I would shoot pool.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

So it's going to be a matter of people learning to trust each other, which means Apple needs to sit down with trustworthy members of the government, and that may have to wait until the next election, I don't know, but we'll see.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I had a program at the hospital where I'd bring in 800 students at a time, frequently elementary students, and you would say, 'How are you going to be able to speak to 800 elementary students and keep them quiet?' You know what: By speaking softly. Because then they'd say, 'Oh, what's he saying?' And they would shut up.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

His ideas don't work. i probably would take the opportunity to nominate someone. Doesn't necessarily mean that person will be acted on or confirmed.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It is quite literally the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard, that telling the voters what Donald Trump's actual record is is deceitful and lying.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Why not do it?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It's about your record, you've gotta clear it up, these things are disturbing and they need to be addressed.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

By the time we got to the '60s, LBJ was saying, we, the government, are going to eliminate poverty. How did that work out? ... More poverty.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you have to undermine three things -- our spiritual life, our patriotism, and our morality.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We didn't spend nearly as much money in New Hampshire as many others, we didn't spend anywhere near millions of dollars there, recognizing there were certain things that were going to happen there. So you have to pick your battles very carefully. We're doing just fine, people will continue to support us, we will move forward.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'm not getting any pressure from our millions of supporters (to leave the race). I'm getting a lot of pressure to make sure I stay in the race.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I think I can win South Carolina. We're going to be putting a lot of time resources and effort here.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This kind of deceitful behavior is why the American people don't trust politicians and don't trust Washington, D.C. If Senator Cruz does not act, then he clearly represents D.C. values.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I would hope people would recognize that trying to create efficiency is a characteristic that they would like to see in their leaders.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Shameless tactics & dirty political plays defined yesterdays #iacaucus, there is no place for this kind of behavior.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

The people who support me are extremely enthusiastic.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I see the threat being the fact that people sometimes are not well educated.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

They don't have a clue what you're talking about, and yet these are people who vote.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I implore people to really inform yourself about who the candidates are, inform yourself of what their positions are.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Paris happened, and San Bernardino happened. Plus you had, I think, an almost unprecedented attack on my character.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

A lot of things happened, paris happened, and San Bernardino happened. Plus you had, I think, an almost unprecedented attack on my character.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

That's the kind of person you want to have their finger on the button. communicating has not been a problem when I actually get in front of an audience.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I know plenty about foreign policy, and about national security. Probably a lot more than most of the other people running.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'd say we hold all the cards there. I would say, I want those sailors back. And I want everybody that you're holding from us back right now or you're not getting a penny.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

He tends to talk about things that are right versus wrong. And that's something that I think many evangelicals identify with. And I'm sure there are some who may be a little skeptical about some of the depth of his evangelical conversion. But they like the fact that he paints things in a way that is very clear.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Communicating has not been a problem when I actually get in front of an audience.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I suspect that all of you guys might be a little surprised on the day after the Iowa caucus.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We unfortunately had some tragedy in our campaign today, one of the vans in Iowa, with one of our staffers and three student volunteers, hit a patch of ice, flipped on its side, (and) was hit by another vehicle.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

One of the vans in Iowa, with one of our staffers and three student volunteers, hit a patch of ice, flipped on its side, (and) was hit by another vehicle.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think that's where we need to be right now.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

You'll see a lot more pep in my step because I don't have as much weight on my shoulders now, i think you'll see that during the debate on Thursday. I'm actually looking very much forward to it.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's been a narrative that a person like me couldn't possibly be commander in chief in this challenging time. We're in the process of exploding that narrative, ask me something about foreign policy and see what my answers are.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You're going to see me not being quite so polite as to never say anything unless somebody asks me something.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

As a kid growing up in poverty, I hated poverty, i was absolutely certain I was born into the wrong family.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Any manipulation of the tax system for whatever good reason, I just don't agree with, i want a completely flat tax. ... I base it on the Bible on tithing. I think God's a pretty fair guy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think we have to go into the den of the lion, when we go there and we talk about what we believe, they actually resonate with it. ... We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I want a completely flat tax. ... I base it on the Bible on tithing. I think God's a pretty fair guy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Could it have been done better? Absolutely. Are we perfect? Absolutely not. Did we need to make these changes? Absolutely yes, you're never going to be able to do a shakeup in a way that will please everybody.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There isn't anything that's non-mainstream Christian about Seventh day Adventists -- the one exception may be that they believe that Saturday is the Sabbath, simply because that's what the Bible says, that doesn't mean that people who worship on Sunday are evil people or doomed, I don't believe that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It doesn't mean they're not good people, it means you need to add that in, and that's what the addition was done.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Now we're reinvigorated and I think this is going to be something that everyone's going to notice a very big difference.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't believe in a secret rapture, where people just, he's just sitting here one minute and he disappears.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

One of the things that I learned in a long medical career is that you make decisions based on evidence, and not on ideology. So yes, I would be willing to sit down with people from both sides and examine the evidence and make decisions based on what the evidence shows.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

A lot of my foreign policy expertise is a result of spending time talking to him, as well as a variety of other sources.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It really is quite spectacular what we were able to do. But the fact of the matter is now we're in a different ballgame and we need the ability to execute and not just have good ideas.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It doesn't diminish anything that he's done. I think he's done a fantastic job.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Political correctness will destroy us if we don't wake up, we should all be careful about what we say, but the fact of the matter is, let's not get so concerned about how offended our enemies are. And let's pay a whole lot more attention to who we are and how do we protect our people here in the United States.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We did a deep dive and recognized that there were some areas of deficiency, we're moving into a different phase now and we need something different.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Every single thing is on the table. I'm looking carefully.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's a lot of things that can happen in this country, and we need to be planning for those things, we cannot take a wait and see and react type of attitude. We've got to be forward-thinking very quickly to protect the American people.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's no question that they use anything that they can against us, they use anything that they can possibly get their hands on to try to make their case and particularly to go after the disaffected people of the world, and what we need to be thinking about is how do we give them a different message -- disaffected ones -- so that they won't be so attracted to those kinds of messages?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's no question as I haven't spent a lot of time schmoozing and asking for big money and going to cocktail parties, but I've spent many a night in the operating room -- cold, sterile place with a little child's life on the line working very hard to preserve that, you know, it's a very different kind of experience.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You know, it's a very different kind of experience.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning, if this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Polls go up and down, when people were asking me when I was polling at the top spot was I excited, I said no, because polls go up and down, and I will say that now, I think you will see them continue to rise, at this stage of the game, very few people can sustain the kinds of attacks I have and still be at this level, so that tells you that there is a strong base of support there.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Ben Carson has nothing to do with Ben Carson campaign. Nothing, armstrong can comment on his own behalf. He does not speak for Ben Carson campaign at all. He does not speak for me. He speaks for himself.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The next thing you know, there's a warrant out for your arrest, and you wind up getting fired, we need to find ways to accommodate different situations in our society and I think when we do that, the level of frustration probably goes down.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need to find ways to accommodate different situations in our society and I think when we do that, the level of frustration probably goes down.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I will always stand behind who the people choose. It's not about me.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Look at what happened, again another hate crime in San Bernardino today. At least 14 people killed, when less than a week ago we had the shooting in Colorado. And then look at all the things that are going on around the world. ISIS and groups like this. Just hatred and evil. And we need to be able to combat these things because otherwise we will melt into despair. And that's not who we are. This is America.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Look at what happened, again another hate crime in San Bernardino today, at least 14 people killed. When less than a week ago we had the shooting in Colorado. And then look at all the things that are going on around the world. ISIS and groups like this. Just hatred and evil. And we need to be able to combat these things because otherwise we will melt into despair. And that's not who we are. This is America.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think both sides should tone down their rhetoric and engage in civil discussion.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The thing that I really learned in listening to the refugees themselves is their intense desire is to return to their country and repatriated, there's so many people who think the ideal for everybody is to come to America and be resettled here but that is not the ideal for everybody.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

They don't have enough money, you look at last year, there was a $3 billion shortfall. That's the same amount of money we spent last month on Halloween candy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's so many people who think the ideal for everybody is to come to America and be resettled here but that is not the ideal for everybody.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You look at last year, there was a $3 billion shortfall. That's the same amount of money we spent last month on Halloween candy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Until it is safe for them to return home, Jordan is a safe place for them to wait, bringing 25,000 refugees to the United States does nothing to solve this crisis. Jordan already houses 1.4 million refugees. Jordan needs and deserves our help.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

But Jordan is a small country. They need the world's help to feed, educate and care for these refugees until the war ends.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

These brave people want nothing more than an end the war in Syria. They want to go back to their lives, we must find a political end to this conflict.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Bringing 25,000 refugees to the United States does nothing to solve this crisis.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

He's not my adviser. He is not my adviser. He is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinions about what was going on, to call himself my adviser would be a great stretch, and he has no idea who else I'm sitting down and talking to.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Listen to what I'm actually saying, stop listening to the narrative of those who want to try to create doubt in people's minds.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I never said that they were.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I saw the film of it, yes.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When I used the term 'much ado about nothing,' my point was that the media tried to create the impression that the pro-life community was nutty and going way overboard with the support of the patient.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm not real big on telling them what we would or would not do.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It's really unfair that people can't get a real hearing, and they get put on a list and nobody can tell them why they're there, and they go through for years and years and they have to be tormented. It just doesn't make any sense.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I agree that there's no such thing as political correctness when you're fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you and everything that you have anything to do with, and I'm not one who is real big on telling the enemy what we're going to do and what we're not going to do.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and I don't want to deprive people unnecessarily of that. There needs to be better due process.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

One of the hallmarks of America is that we treat everyone the same.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If there's a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably going to put your children out of the way. That doesn't mean that you hate all dogs.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He has nothing to do with the campaign. Nothing, armstrong can comment on his own behalf. He does not speak for the campaign at all. He does not speak for me. He speaks for himself.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The general principle that I've been talking about is that if we don't fight them and eradicate them where they are, we will end up with situations like we have in Paris, we will end up with situations similar to that, or even worse, here in the United States, and I think we ought to take this as a warning that we need to really go in there with very serious intent -- not to contain them -- but to take (ISIS) out completely.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I would use every resource available to us, i would use the world banking system to strangulate them in terms of currency. I would try to get rid of any revenues they could derive from the oil and energy fields that they control. I would look at all the pathways, entrance and exit, like in Sinjar. You know, they took control of the supply routes first. And that made the subsequent capture easier. You know those typical, old fashioned but really effective military strategies -- they work.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In medicine we have something called continuing medical education. You have to get those credits in order to be recertified.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What we really need to be talking about is the overall plan, the overall strategy, not who were going to call first.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There simply is not a way to vet these refugees.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

Congress I think should defund all the programs that allow all these people to be here. Immediately. Today.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Bringing people into this country from that area of the world I think is a huge mistake, because why wouldn't they infiltrate them with people who are ideologically opposed to us? It would be foolish for them not to do that. So, we need to be very compassionate to understand that these people have been displaced and we should use our expertise and resources to help get them resettle over there, and to support them over there, but to bring them here under these circumstances is a suspension of intellect.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement and I didn't infiltrate that group of people with my people ... that would be almost malpractice.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It reminds us that there are those out there who have a thirst for innocent blood in an attempt to spread their philosophy and their will across this globe, and we must redouble our efforts and our resolve to resist them. Not only to contain them, but to eliminate that kind of hatred in the world.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement and I didn't infiltrate that group of people with my people, I -- that would be almost malpractice.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

They will have an opportunity to see the materials just as everybody else.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It's OK to disagree with people, but it's not OK to destroy them, people are so frightened of the politically correct police that they are willing to do things that are irrational in order to appease them. I believe it's going to be necessary for those people who truly believe in our system, who believe in our Constitution, who believe in our principles and values that made America great, to be willing to stand up.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Thank you for not asking me what I said in the 10th grade, we should vet all candidates. I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that out there as truth.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In the two hours of this -- of this debate, five people have died from drug-related deaths, $100 million has been added to our national debt, 200 babies have been killed by abortionists, and two veterans have taken their lives out of despair, this is a narrative that we can change, not we the Democrats, not we the Republicans, but we the people of America, because there is something special about this nation, and we must embrace it and be proud of it and never give it away for the sake of political correctness.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have to start treating people the same and finding out what people really think and what they're made of, people who know me know that I'm an honest person.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, first of all, thank you for not asking me what I said in the 10th grade, I appreciate that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The candidates were very happy with you guys, it was very elegant.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

Whose plan would God endorse?

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I have no problem with being vetted, what I do have a problem with is being lied about and having that put out there as true.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We have to start treating people the same and finding out what they really think, people who know me know I’m an honest person.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases, i'm interested in making sure that people can enter the job market.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I have no problem being vetted, what I do have a problem with is being lied about, then having that put out there as truth.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Where I come from, they call that a lie, that’s very different than somebody misinterpreting what I said.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I don’t even mind that, so long as they do it to people on the other side.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

It didn't go to that extent, it was an offer to me. It was specifically made.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

This is a bunch of lies, this is what it is, it’s a bunch of lies attempting, you know, to say that I ’m lying about my history. I think it’s pathetic.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

They understand that this is a witch hunt.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

This is a bunch of lies, this is what it is, it’s a bunch of lies attempting, you know, to say that I’m lying about my history. I think it’s pathetic.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

We haven't had any bombs on any of our planes for that reason. Obviously you don't want to relax the surveillance that we have.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The Lord had a different plan, i just said,' Lord this is not something that I particularly wish to do, but if Ben Carson really want me to do it Ben Carson'll have to open the doors.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

And if you open the doors I'll walk through them, and if you close the doors, I'll gladly sit down.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I was trying to kill somebody.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Bennie stayed home a lot or went to the library to work. We would have been at the ballfield, so maybe he would have come by to watch.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Ben Carson spared our lives because he wants us to do something.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

He was a quiet, shy kid, not too outgoing, bennie stayed home a lot or went to the library to work. We would have been at the ballfield, so maybe he would have come by to watch.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The explanation is that that occurred over 50 years ago, have you ever played that party game where you whisper into the person's ear and then they tell it, and by the time it gets all the way back around it's a different story ? That's what we're talking about here.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm Dr. Ben Carson, and this is my story, poverty and the mean streets of Detroit could have defined my life.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Give me a break, we need to mature in the way that we do these debates if they're going to be useful to the American people.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

I think it's a good idea, I actually agree with that, but I think that that's only a small part of it, we need to have a much bigger plan when it comes to battling the global jihadist -- because they have big ideas about what they want to do to us and to our way of life.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need to reestablish ourselves in that area, we need to give Ukraine offensive weapons. We need to reestablish a missile defense system in the eastern bloc of countries so that we oppose him. Let's keep him on the run, we need to recognize that, you know, his fuel is oil. And we need to do everything we can to develop our energy resources at an economical rate so that we keep the oil prices down, which keeps him in his little box.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

My much bigger plan involves, you know, Putin and Iran also.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We should be doing this in communication with Putin to try and decrease the likelihood of conflict and keeping the forces apart.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think that’s a move in the right direction … certainly in terms of helping to guide what the Air Force is doing.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

There is no reason that you can't be perfectly fair to the gay community.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

If you happen to be in an affluent community, there's a lot more money for the schools, better facilities, everything. All that does is perpetuate the situation, wouldn't it make more sense to put the money in a pot and redistribute it throughout the country so that public schools are equal, whether you're in a poor area or a wealthy area?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think it's very different than a situation where someone is working hard, is making a lot of money, is providing a lot of jobs and is contributing to the fabric of America, and us going along and saying, 'Well, this one, he has too much, and this guy over here, he has too little, so let's just take this one's and give it to that one.' That's much more arbitrary, we are talking about the entire nation.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm talking about the fact that there are a lot of public schools that exist in areas that are economically deprived that don't have the facilities that are necessary to provide the best education for our children.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are talking about the entire nation.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm not talking about getting rid of those programs.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The program that I have outlined … largely eliminates the need for people to be dependent on government programs like that, i would never get rid of the programs. I would provide people with an alternative.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

That was the old plan.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

My energy levels are perfectly fine, as I've said many times, there have been many times where I've operated 12, 15, 20 hours, and that requires a lot of energy. Doesn't require a lot of jumping up and down and screaming, but it does require a lot of concentration.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have to recognize that we can't just round them up, but we can give them an opportunity to register, i would give them an opportunity to become guest workers -- not citizens, not voting people, not people who get goodies. I think that would be a fair way to do it. In terms of them becoming citizens later on down the road if they've done things the right way, we the American people will decide what the criteria for that ought to be.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't feel the need for it, quite frankly. But the Secret Service thinks that I need it. So, you know, it is what it is.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Candy is having a blast meeting supporters throughout Iowa -- best part is reading to Jordan Creek Elem. students.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Of course I want the Voting Rights Act to be protected. Whether we still need it or not or whether we've outgrown the need for it is questionable, maybe we have, maybe we haven't. But I wouldn't jeopardize it.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He may well be right, but I don't see the disadvantage in maintaining the right.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Gun control only works for normal law abiding citizens. It doesn't work for crazies.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I beg to differ, if you go back and look at the history of the world, tyranny and despotism and how it starts, it has a lot to do with control of thought and control of speech.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I support a plan that is much flatter and fairer, i also strongly believe that every American should pay something according to their means. We are all Americans and we all have the same rights and responsibilities.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

While I applaud Donald's plan as a step in the right direction. We must go further. We must get the IRS out of our lives, eliminating the tax code and a mountain of regulations will cause our economy to explode with growth. The IRS isn't the answer, it is the problem.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

As a general principle, people can do whatever they want on their private property -- that's one of the basic tenets of freedom in America, i am not opposed to anybody doing whatever they want to do on their private property.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I guess as a message to us.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I would have problems with somebody who embraced all the doctrines associated with Islam, if they are not willing to reject sharia and all the portions of it that are talked about in the Quran -- if they are not willing to reject that, and subject that to American values and the Constitution, then of course, I would.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Is it possible that maybe the media thinks it's a bigger deal than the American people do? because American people, the majority of them, agree and they understand exactly what I am saying.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I've worked with Muslims. I've trained Muslims. I've operated on Muslims. There are a lot of Muslims who are very patriotic. Good Americans and they gladly admit, at least privately, that they don't accept sharia or the doctrines and they understand that Islam is a system of living and it includes the way that you relate to the government, and you cannot, unless you specifically, deny that portion of Islam be a Muslim in good standing. Now if that is the case, if you are not willing to reject that, then how in the world can you possibly be the president of the United States.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I personally don't feel that way, but I would certainly be willing to listen to somebody who had evidence to the contrary, i think that's one of the problems, we get to our little corners and we don't want to listen to anybody.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I said anybody, doesn't matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our Constitution, i have no problem with them.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What we should be talking about is Islam and the tenets of Islam and where do they come from? They come from Sharia. They come the Koran. They come from, you know, the life works and examples of Mohammed. They come from the fatwas, which is the writings of scholars, you know, and if you go back and you look at -- what I would like for somebody to show me is an improved Islamic text that opposes Sharia. Let me see -- if you can show me that, I will begin to alter my thinking on this.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You know, and if you go back and you look at -- what I would like for somebody to show me is an improved Islamic text that opposes Sharia. Let me see -- if you can show me that, I will begin to alter my thinking on this.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm not going to be asking, 'What should I say in order to keep the media off my back?' but I'm hoping that, at some point, the media matures and recognizes that they are an important part of freedom in America.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Not advocating they run for president in no way precludes them from running.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

People tend to ascribe to Adventism any weird thing they have heard about religion because they don't really know, adventism believes the entirety of the Bible.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm a person who has a deep and abiding faith and relationship with God, but I'm not really into a lot of religious dogma and rituals -- 'you can't do that, and you can't do this.' I don't believe in that. I believe you have to have a deep and abiding faith in God.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

When I came out of that bathroom after three hours, the temper was gone, and some people say you just learned how to hide it. When God fixes a problem, he doesn't just do a paint job, he fixes it from the inside.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Some are enthusiastic but it's a small minority. I don't get much of a sense from Adventists that this is our man, this is our Adventist candidate. i don't identify myself as an Adventist.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

When you get into the ins and outs of every denomination you can be picking at each other till the end of times about things you shouldn't be worried about.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't identify myself as an Adventist.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I find black Republicans are treated extremely well in the Republican Party. In fact, I don't hear much about being a black Republican, i think the Republicans have done a far superior job of getting over racism.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

They're seeing that 50 years of these policies have not resulted in improvement and has really resulted in worsening the situation, a lot of people in the minority community -- contrary to popular opinion, all they want is a fair chance. All they want is an opportunity to succeed.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It was founded as an anti-slavery party, an abolitionist party. The Republican Party worked very, very hard to abolish slavery and after it was abolished to try to gain rights for the freedman including the right to bear arms.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If you're black and you don't think a certain way as far as they are concerned, you're an Uncle Tom, a sellout, a traitor, you hate yourself.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The jihadists want to infiltrate our nation. We have to exercise something that even resembles common sense, that would be foolishness to take in people from a region where we don't have any way in making a determination if this person is radicalized already or potentially radicalized.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I do feel for those individuals and I think we should be helping, but the way we should help is with our expertise, perhaps with some financial help to settle them in the nations where they're coming from.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need to be dealing with that before we start bringing in a bunch of other people, why don't we ever think about putting Americans first?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I never said that a person could not run for office. I just said I would not support them, do I not have the right to support what I want to support?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When the situation arises and we have somebody in that situation, let's talk about it then, there's so many issues that are going on right now in this country. And why is that people are not interested in the important issues that are going on?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't care what religion or faith someone belongs to, if they're willing to subjugate that to the American way and to our Constitution, then I have no problem with that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think he's an intelligent man.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Congress is a different story, but it depends on who that Muslim is and what their policies are, just like it depends on what anybody else is, if there's somebody who is of any faith but they say things and their life has been consistent with things that will elevate this nation and make it possible for everybody to succeed and bring peace and harmony, then I'm with them.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

If there's somebody who is of any faith but they say things and their life has been consistent with things that will elevate this nation and make it possible for everybody to succeed and bring peace and harmony, then I'm with them.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life and that's a very big part of who I am. I don't get that impression with him, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't get that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We don't know who those people are, and the majority of them are young males, and they could easily be people who could be infiltrated by terrorists.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Far too often in today's America, human life is devalued and violence is glorified, how did we allow this to happen? More importantly, how do we stop it?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Together with open minds and linked hearts and hands, we can do better. We must strive to replace hatred and indifference with compassion, it is time for a bold new way of empowerment and responsibility.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Irrational decisions and violence often ensue, with few legal consequences for the individuals involved. seven years ago, the country was promised change that it could believe in. The emptiness of that promise notwithstanding, real change ultimately resides in each of us.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Seven years ago, the country was promised change that it could believe in. The emptiness of that promise notwithstanding, real change ultimately resides in each of us.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Killing babies and harvesting tissue for sale is very different than taking a dead specimen and keeping a record of it, which is exactly the source of the tissue used in our research.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don’t, in any way, deny my faith in God, and I think that probably is a big differentiator.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I would like to say to him that the intention was not to talk to him, but about what motivates me, if he took that as a personal attack on him, I apologize, it was certainly not the intent.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

I've realized where my success has come from, and I don't in anyway deny my faith in God.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

'By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life,' and that's a very big part of who I am. I don't get that impression with him.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

… I realize where my success has come from, and I don’t any way deny my faith in God.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I've realized where my success has come from, and I don't in any way deny my faith in God, and I think that is the big difference.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It sounds really cool. You know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It sounds really cool, you know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

I actually think if people have more money in their pocket, they'd be more charitable. But they'd actually be able to give it to who they want to give it to, i believe it is our responsibility as a people to take care of those in our society. It is not the government's job.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

I think God's a pretty fair person, and he advocated a tithing system, there must be something inherently fair about proportionality.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

If anyone tells you that there's not 3%-4% of fat in all of our (federal) departments, they are lying through their teeth.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

The Kelly File, you know, I’m not competing with anybody. I’m not competing with Mr. Trump.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

You know, I’m not competing with anybody. I’m not competing with Mr. Trump.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

There is a lot of stuff we're doing that doesn't make any sense, we don't need a Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I’ve learned how to phrase things in a way that people can actually hear what I ’m saying, if you use certain words, it can be the most wonderful thing, they wo n’t hear it.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Carly has proven her viability and standing and deserves the same platform as the rest of the candidates.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

All the pundits say it's impossible, i just said, 'Lord, if you want me to do it, if you open the doors, I will walk through them.'.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Even though the President says we're not a Judeo-Christian nation, he doesn't get to decide what kind of nation we are. We get to decide.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What I am doing is steadily getting the message out, and connecting with the American people, and they are responding.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Our children face a very harsh future, unsustainable debt. Future generations will suffer, washington is broken. The political class broke it. Please join me.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I make no bones about the fact that I used to be a Democrat. I used to be a pretty left-wing Democrat, in fact. Over the course of time, you know, my views have changed very dramatically, in 1992, I personally was against abortion, but I was not for causing anybody else to do anything. I was pro-choice in that region.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

My message is not to vote for or against Question Six, but to educate yourself, it became quite apparent that there were things that could be easily misconstrued.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There are caves that they utilize. Those caves can be eliminated. There are a number of possibilities -- that could be one of them.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Drones can help with the surveillance. In no way did I suggest that drones be used to kill people.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

In 1992, I personally was against abortion, but I was not for causing anybody else to do anything. I was pro-choice in that region.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Life is hectic. And it's sometimes easy to let important decisions be made for us. Ballot Question 6 could be like that.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

(It) just means that people are starting to listen rather than just do blindly what pundits tell them to do, and that's a good thing. That bodes well for our country.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It distorts things enormously when the press picks sides, that allows the side they pick to ignore the Constitution, to ignore the laws.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

I’ve learned how to phrase things in a way that people can actually hear what I’m saying, if you use certain words, it can be the most wonderful thing, they won’t hear it.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

I don’t savage anybody, from their perspective, they’re doing what people want, even though people don’t know what they want. It doesn’t necessarily make them horrible, evil people.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Virtually everything that can be attributed to progress by using fetal tissue can also use other types of tissue, if it were the only way to do something and there was no other way, there might be an argument. But under these circumstances, there isn't a legitimate argument.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The fact of the matter is it's much more sophisticated than these little creatures that the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to save, why don't they spend their time and effort trying to save a human life?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

For us to get caught up in a controversy of well,' What did Donald Trump mean when Donald Trump said that ?' It just seems so petty to me.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

Planned Parenthood and their enablers must be stopped from these barbaric practices. I am urging Congress to eliminate every last dime of funding for Planned Parenthood, finally, I ask where is the Department of Justice on this clear violation of Federal law ?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Without anywhere, anytime surprise inspections, a full accounting of Iran's past secret nuclear arms pursuits, elimination of Iran's uranium stockpiles and the lifting of any sanctions only upon verification of Iranian compliance (means) this is not a good deal, but a recipe for disaster and the first fateful step toward a frenzied nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It makes for some anxious moments for his staff, I can promise you that, but that's his style.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I started praying about it, asking God for guidance, and I finally concluded that 'Lord, as long as you open the doors I’ll walk through them. And if you shut the doors, I'll gladly sit down.' Well, he has continually opened the doors.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

The Confederate flag causes a lot of people angst and they are not able to see beyond that, i think the people of South Carolina should sit down and have an intelligent discussion about what can they use that captures their heritage, captures the heritage of America and allows them to coexist in peace.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

As a compassionate nation we should ask what can we do to help people in nations that feel they don't have an opportunity in their nation.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need to be looking at ways that we can share the wealth and still maintain our borders and integrity.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We really have to protect the Constitution, the Fourth Amendment, and there are aspects of the Patriot Act, such as the massive meta-data collection, which I think probably are not necessary.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Somebody did something inappropriate and therefore she understood -- I believe -- that she was sitting on a powder keg and needed to do something to calm the situation down.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I've got to tell you something. I'm not politically correct, and I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician, politicians do what is politically expedient, and I want to do what's right.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I can name a lot of people in politics who have been there all their lives. You probably wouldn't want them to polish your shoe, we need to be smart enough to think for ourselves.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Politicians do what is politically expedient, and I want to do what's right.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Many people have suggested to me that I should run for president, even though I’m not a politician.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I don't wander off into those extraneous areas that can be exploited. I have learned that, moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm Ben Carson, and I'm a candidate for president of the United States.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm willing to be part of the equation, and therefore, I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I am willing to be a part of the equation and therefore, I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States of America.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I'm willing to be part of the equation and, therefore, I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There’s no question this country is in very dire straits. the whole leadership issue is lacking. Ben Carson also embraced the large GOP field, saying it will give voters.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Parents, grandparents, guardians need to play a very active role in the lives of these children. That's what will mold the kind of adults that they become, i don't necessarily think violence is always the answer, but sometimes in a desperate situation, a mom needs to get her son out of that situation, feeling that he may be in a danger.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

This has been going on for a long time. This is not new and we shouldn't pretend it's new.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Just for the record, let me make it extremely clear that I am extremely pro-Second Amendment and there's no question about it, and I would never, never allow for anybody to tamper with that right because it is so important.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I mean a police officer you know shooting down a citizen of the United States -- really doesn't matter what the color of them is.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It seems to be a topic -- a person's sexual orientation -- that is of fair amount of concern to you. I don't find it to be anywhere near as interesting, i think it's a personal issue and we ought to leave it as a personal issue.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Why are we not talking about that? i would like to see as much emphasis on the rights of Christians and people who are members of the faith community as there is to some of the other groups.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And I think when people hear what the message is about everybody deserves a chance, everybody needs to be helped, I think that's an American message. I think that's a message that people relate to.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Why do gay people want to get married? Why do they say they want to get married? Because they want to have various rights -- property rights, visitation rights, why can't any two human beings, I don't care what their sexual orientation is, why can't they have the legal right to do those things? That does not require changing the definition of marriage.

– Ben Carson

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Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We need to move in a very different direction.

– Ben Carson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think that the Republican Party has a splendid opportunity to make the case that we want those people who are dependent in our society to be independent, we're creative people. If we use our resources, we can lift people out of poverty as well.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics