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"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."
"Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system."
"You are what you think."
"We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord."
"I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency."
"You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying."
"The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly."
"God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done."
"What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world."
"Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare."
"If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments."
"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."
"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."
"It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone."
"It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times."
"Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is, I've been in lots of place growing up and listening to people tell great tales of sexual conquest. It is an immature thing to do -"
"Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity."
"Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail."
"The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith."
"Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA."