Ben Carson Quotes

It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

You have yourself to blame.

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

Jesus Is All the World to Me.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother." I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt—by forgetting.

We've been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.

We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.

We'd be Cuba if there were no Fox News.

I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.

I want people to see me as an honest person, a person who is actually willing to express what they believe. The way I look at it, if people don't like that, I'd rather not be in office. I don't want to be in office under false pretenses, just saying things people want to hear so I can get elected.