Frasi di Benjamin Carson pagina 6

“[…] la riforma Obamacare penso che sia davvero la cosa peggiore che sia mai successa, dopo la schiavitù. E in un certo senso […] è schiavitù perché… perché ci rende tutti sottomessi al Governo. Non è mai stata una questione di assistenza sanitaria, ma di controllo.”

“[…] ho fatto conoscenza con Donald Trump durante gli ultimi anni. In realtà è un uomo molto intelligente che ha davvero a cuore l'America. Ci sono due Donald Trump discordanti. C'è quello che si vede sul palco e c'è quello che è piuttosto cerebrale, si siede a fare considerazioni con molta attenzione. Si può avere una buona conversazione con lui, ed è il Donald Trump che vedrete sempre più spesso.”

“Seguo l'islam con attenzione e ho dovuto rassegnarmi al fatto che ogni musulmano è obbligato a seguire la sharia: la legge del taglio della mano e della lapidazione. E ho scoperto che no, la sharia è immutabile, oggi come mille anni fa. Questo è in contrasto con i diritti delle donne, dei bambini, dei gay e di tutte le persone libere. Qualcuno mi smentisca e io cambierò idea.”

“Creativity requires risk. So do exploration and innovation. Anyone who thinks outside of the box is taking a risk. Leadership brings many risk. Courage is exercised in the face of risk. Invest involve risk. Decision-making always mean a certain degree of risk.”

Origine: Citato in Nero, tosto e anti-islamico. Se il dopo Obama fosse Carson? http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/nero-tosto-e-anti-islamico-se-obama-fosse-carson-1180666.html, il Giornale.it, 9 ottobre 2015

Benjamin Carson: Frasi in inglese

“I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 161

“The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 167

“We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 81

“Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 239

“Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 90

“Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 160

“We have no time for excuses.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 196

“That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 80

“The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 94

“We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 51

“Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 265

“There's only two paragraphs in there about George Washington … little or nothing about Martin Luther King, a whole section on slavery and how evil we are, a whole section on Japanese internment camps and how we slaughtered millions of Japanese with our bombs… I think most people when they finish that course, they'd be ready to go sign up for ISIS … We have got to stop this silliness crucifying ourselves.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 175

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

As quoted in "Fox News' Ben Carson Thinks New AP U.S. History Course Will Make Students Join ISIS" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/ben-carson-ap-us-history_n_5910982.html, The Huffington Post (January 10, 2014)

“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.”

As quoted in "Carson at CPAC: How to destroy America in 4 steps" http://humanevents.com/2013/03/17/dr-ben-carson-at-cpac-2013-how-to-destroy-america-in-four-easy-steps/, Human Events (March 17, 2013)

“If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 165

“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.
And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for a reason. And various scientists have said, “Well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how they were”—you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 118

“I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.”

Stated in 1998 during his commencement address at Andrews University, as quoted in "Aliens, Pyramids, and Granaries? What on Earth Was Ben Carson Thinking?" http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/11/aliens-pyramids-and-granaries-what-on-earth-was-ben-carson-thinking/414301/, The Atlantic, (November 4, 2015)

“You can sense their anger before they even say a word.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 132

“We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 77

“I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.”

Origine: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 84

“One of the great truths of life: I did not do it alone. I had help along the way.”

Origine: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 125

“The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 10

“Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 74

“We can see God's reflection in everything he created.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 206

“You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 148

“Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 46

“As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.”

Origine: Take The Risk (2008), p. 128

“We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.”

Origine: Think Big (1996), p. 254

“I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.”

Origine: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 215