Benjamin Carson Military Quotes

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• Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Military, White

• I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Government, Community

• We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Responsibility, Korea

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Military, War

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Needs, Economic

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Military, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Matter, Ifs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Thinking, Policy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, President, Done

  Transcript: Sixth Republican top-tier debate 2016, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2016.

• We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Israel, Allies

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Doctors, Appreciate

  "The Barbershop Talks Keystone, Ben Carson's Week, New 'Star Wars' Trailer". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 7, 2015.

• Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Economic Sanctions, Looks

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Experts, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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