American - Scientist | September 18, 1951 -
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.
Ben Carson
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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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.
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What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
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A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.
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I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
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There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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