Ben Carson

What we are doing--that is the whole concept behind our push on Section 3 because there are 6 million skilled jobs in our country that are going--begging right now.

I can't emphasize strongly enough to all appropriations members that we have to do this before a disaster occurs. We have to.

There is no one on the outside who can bring this country down; but, we can bring it down from the inside.

The opportunity zone is a splendid opportunity, secondary to the Tax Cut and Jobs bill, where people can take unearned capital gains, unrealized capital gains, put them into an Opportunity Fund in economically neglected areas.

Those are the kinds of holistic things that have to be done if we are ever going to get out of these chronic situations that really shouldn't be going on in this country, as far as I am concerned.

Yes. I was extremely concerned when I learned about the challenges, not only with the lead, but with the mold; with the elevators, particularly with some of the elderly people there; with the heating and cooling systems. It's absolutely…

Your guidance should be what is right and not what other people do.

I would hope at some point that many people who are oppositional would actually stop and spend time discussing with us what we are doing.

She always told us what we could do, rather than what we couldn't do.

Those are the kinds of things that are perverse incentives that have kept people mired in poverty. We want to change those things.

We want people to actually be able to move out of assisted housing, and to realize the potential that God gave to each individual.

I believe any discrimination is serious.