Economics is not brain surgery.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

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

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

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.

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

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.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

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.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.

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.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

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