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.
There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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.
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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.
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?’
In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.
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.
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.
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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.
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.
Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.