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"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."
"I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And a lot of times when people don't have a lot to say, they increase the volume."
"Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God."
"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."
"As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am."
"I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election."
"Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws."
"I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic."
"Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect."
"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."
"We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about."
"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."
"Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character."
"If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you."
"I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people."
"It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see."
"Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to school and get their GED or their associate's degree or bachelor's degree or their master's degree, learn how to take care of themselves, teach their baby how to take care of themselves so that you break the cycle of the dependency."
"Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby."
"If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable."
"I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world."