I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

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

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. 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.

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .

We've gotten into this - this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war. 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.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.