Well, the way I kind of look at it, there are those who feel that the only people who can actually come up with solutions are people with a lot of political experience. But if you take the collective political experience of Congress, it comes out to almost 9,000 years. What has it done for us?
Carson critiques the reliance on political experience in solving problems, suggesting that it has not been effective.
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I realized that there are a lot of people who came before me. And if they all took the easy road and the relaxing road, we wouldn't have the country that we have today.
If we are not going to be a nation of laws, what happens if we say, 'We can ignore this one, we don't like this one, but this one we will do.' Where does that lead in the long run? To nothing but chaos.
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