“She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 18
“Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.”
"Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018" https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rather-be-a-dictator-than-a-dumb-person-video-2022-4?r=US&IR=T, Business Insider, 22 April 2022 <br class="br">2022, April 2022
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