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.
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.
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.
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.
It’s very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
I’ve gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country – and the most poignant ones being elderly people – who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.
I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.
Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars.
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.
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.
I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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.
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.