Ben Carson Quotes

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

I admire President Obama's class and measure.

In order to justify the sympathy and trust extended to me by people of all classes, even to the furthest corners of the world of Islam, I intend to form a People’s Party…after the establishment of peace, in order to devote my life to the good of my country as a humble individual.

There’s often a fine line between a madman and a prophet… Neither prophets nor madmen should be elected to the presidency. But neither can they safely be ignored.

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

We've never had a female President in this country, which I find stunning

The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country's military. The decision was praised by everyone from Parliamentary leader Kim Jong Un to opposition leader Kim Jong Un.

I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

We just can't let Donald Trump be the leader of this country. We can line up. We can be part of Hillary Clinton's effort to be the president of the United States and to help do the things we care about in this country - to really help build a future.

You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.