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Benjamin Carson

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American neurosurgeon, author and politician serving as the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2017, under the Trump Administration. Prior to his cabinet position, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the Republican primaries in 2016.

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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Advance, Ethics, Science, Significant Things, Technology

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.

Running, People, Want, Congress, Run

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.

Diagnose, Issues, Know, People, Resonate, Thinking

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Choices, Poverty, Realizing, Hard, Work, Change

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.

Decided, Firsts, Medical, Reality, School

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Against, Please, Purpose, Serve, Serving God

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war.

Craziness, People, War, Worried

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

Blessed, Complex, Involved, Procedures, World

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Effort, Hear, Ones, Reacting, Risk, Should

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

Everything, Trying

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

Behavior, Choices, People, Responsibility, Self

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Break, Christmas, Mean, Merry, People, Say

Economics is not brain surgery.

Brain, Economics, Neurosurgeons, Surgery, Wise Words

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Awe, Brain, Human, Looks

When you look at the way the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they would have to be that way for a reason. And, you know, various scientists have said, well, you know, there were alien beings that came down, and they had special knowledge, and that's how they were - you know, it doesn't require an alien being when God is with you.

Came, Know, Looks, Pyramids, Scientists, Special

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

Compassion, Dependent, People, Way

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.

Faith, Flames, Men, Moving, Nice, Posses

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Ask, Giving, Important, Maverick, People, Said

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Like, Media, Party, Responsibility

Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

Climb, Home, Ladder, Opportunity, Skills, Things

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