Billy Carson Quotes

“Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.”

“Economics is not brain surgery.”

“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”

“Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.”

“Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.”

“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.”

“God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.”

“Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.

We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.”

“Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think.

And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.”

“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool.

And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.”

“I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.”

“I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.

There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.”

“I started reading about people of great accomplishment and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.”

“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”

“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you.

It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.”

“I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient.

I want to do what's right.”

“I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.”

“I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.”

“I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?”

“If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?”

“Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.”

“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.”

“It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”

“It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.”

“Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.”

“Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.”

“Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.”

“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.”

“People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.”

“Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.”