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.
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn’t look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it’s going to be fine.
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Economics is not brain surgery.
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
I think it’s a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there’s a different paradigm.