Top 300 Ben Carson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Economics is not brain surgery.”

— Ben Carson

152. “I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.”

— Ben Carson

153. “I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work – books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.”

— Ben Carson

154. “The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.”

— Ben Carson

155. “It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”

— Ben Carson

156. “We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are – ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.”

— Ben Carson

157. “People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.”

— Ben Carson

158. “What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.”

— Ben Carson

159. “What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.”

— Ben Carson

160. “Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”

— Ben Carson

161. “Remaining a victim of circumstance is a state of being that we choose, a choice that – allows us to blame other people – lets us blame circumstances – permits us to avoid responsibility for our lives – encourages us to feel sorry for ourselves, and – guarantees that we will stay victims. No one has to be a victim!”

— Ben Carson

162. “What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.”

— Ben Carson

163. “People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”

— Ben Carson

164. “Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.”

— Ben Carson

165. “I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.”

— Ben Carson

166. “I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.”

— Ben Carson

167. “The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.”

— Ben Carson

168. “Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition.”

— Ben Carson

169. “I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.”

— Ben Carson

170. “I wouldn’t go to war over Ukraine.”

— Ben Carson

171. “We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.”

— Ben Carson

172. “I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

174. “The left, of course, will say Carson doesn’t believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars. And – and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.”

— Ben Carson

175. “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.”

— Ben Carson

176. “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.”

— Ben Carson

177. “Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars.”

— Ben Carson

178. “Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.”

— Ben Carson

179. “I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority – particularly, respect the law.”

— Ben Carson

180. “I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.”

— Ben Carson

181. “Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.”

— Ben Carson

182. “Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”

— Ben Carson

183. “I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.”

— Ben Carson

184. “If we apply logic to solving our problems and add the godly principles of loving our fellow man, caring about our neighbors, and developing our God-given talents to the utmost so we become valuable to those around us – allowing these values and principles to govern our lives – then not only will we remain a pinnacle nation, we will truly be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

— Ben Carson

185. “The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.”

— Ben Carson

186. “It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.”

— Ben Carson

187. “In our culture, security has become an obsession.”

— Ben Carson

188. “Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

— Ben Carson

189. “The bottom line was that we have only ourselves to blame. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities.”

— Ben Carson

190. “Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.”

— Ben Carson

191. “You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.”

— Ben Carson

192. “Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.”

— Ben Carson

193. “Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.”

— Ben Carson

194. “I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.”

— Ben Carson

195. “One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.”

— Ben Carson

196. “I struggled academically throughout elementary school.”

— Ben Carson

197. “This is what we’re going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.”

— Ben Carson

198. “It’s very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.”

— Ben Carson

199. “The best way to respond to distracting personal attacks is to practice bringing the conversation back to the issue at hand. Never fall into the trap of engaging in personal attacks while letting the topic of conversation slip into the background. Doing so allows your opponent to escape the need to explain her position.”

— Ben Carson

200. “God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.”

— Ben Carson