"When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives."
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"A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together."
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"Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done."
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"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."
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"I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program."
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"If we don't get the military right nothing else matters."
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"Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength."
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"We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it."
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"We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs."
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"I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the only one to take out half of a brain.But I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation."
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"We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded."
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"I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them."
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"We've gotten into this - this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war. 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."
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"'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'"
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"It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference."
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"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."
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"Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things."
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"To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.""
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"If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field."
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"If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world."
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