Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
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"You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."
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More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces.
"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."
Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."
"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."
"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."
Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.
"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.
"The Chinese are there" in Syria.
Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a…