Top 300 Ben Carson Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it’s not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it’s a politician thing.”

— Ben Carson

152. “Our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.”

— Ben Carson

153. “It’s ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.”

— Ben Carson

154. “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

155. “Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”

— Ben Carson

156. “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

157. “Economics is not brain surgery.”

— Ben Carson

158. “Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.”

— Ben Carson

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Ben Carson

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

169. “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

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

175. “I struggled academically throughout elementary school.”

— Ben Carson

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Ben Carson

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.”

— Ben Carson

186. “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

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

— Ben Carson

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

196. “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

197. “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

198. “Both parents came from big families: my mother had 23 siblings, and my father grew up with 13 brothers and sisters. They married when my father was 28 and my mother was 13. Many years later she confided that she was looking for a way to get out of a desperate home situation.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

200. “Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.”

— Ben Carson