Ben Carson Quotes

I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

I think these debates coming up are going to be a test of who the American people like better, who they want in their living room more, who they think is better capable of being president of the United States.

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

I think Governor Romney cares about all the American people.

All good dramas are rife with conflicts, and the conflicts have to be resolved. What I think is so great about a show that takes place in a hospital is that you have so many different people with different needs. Sometimes all those can be in conflict. The drama of Heartland also comes from the group of people waiting, and they are sometimes agonizingly waiting for a new organ for their body in order to survive. So the show is so much about survival, which creates a sense of urgency to get the organs. I think that sense of urgency is probably the most prominent dramatic quality to the show.

I believe the best in people. I believe if you need a bathroom break you go to the bathroom. If you need treatment, you get treatment. I don't think any rules should be changed.

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

What I will do is put America first. People don't like to use that term of America first, but we're going to make America great again by putting America first.

Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.