Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

— Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

— Ben Carson

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

— Ben Carson

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

— Ben Carson

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.

— Ben Carson

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

— Ben Carson

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

— Ben Carson

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well, but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are, and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think, and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

— Ben Carson

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

— Ben Carson

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

— Ben Carson