Dr. Ben Carson

"Can a Doctor Be President? - Dr. Ben Carson" +

1:58 video, May 26, 2014.

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TEXT: Can a Doctor Be President?  Dr. Ben Carson

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Dr. Ben Carson, M.D.: I find it amusing when people want to know why is a doctor speaking out on public policy.  Why don't they ask why is a lawyer speaking out on public policy or why is a businessman speaking out on public policy?  Why does anybody speak up on it?  Usually it's because they know something about it, and one's profession doesn't dictate what one knows.  It dictates what one has to know in order to perform the duties associated with that profession.  You don't have to restrict yourself.  And there were five doctors who signed the Declaration of Independence; doctors signed the Bill of Rights, doctors signed our Constitution.  And doctors are actually the most educated people in our society.  Nobody has the level of formal training that a doctor does.  More importantly they're trained to make decisions based on evidence and not on ideology.  So I would encourage more doctors and engineers and scientists to speak out on public policy.  There's absolutely no reason that rational thought processes can't be used in public policy and in fact I think if they were public policies would actually be better.  You know one of the reasons that our Founders wanted a representative government is because they wanted lots of different points of view; they wanted people to come at things from different angles, including people who thought about things rationally.  We want some of them included to.  It makes a big difference I think in terms of what we do as a nation.  This is not to say that other people can't be rational, but you have some people who are trained to be rational, and that helps when you throw them into the mix.  [Music]

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