carson, morty and grace, the books are all paid for, okay? mass -- [applause] and i'm grateful. [laughter] let me tell you, i'm grateful. but i want to thank you for coming. but reawaken your virtues, you've got to reawaken the virtues in you, you know? no matter how blessed you have, no matter how fortunate you are, you could spend 20 years building something, and you can lose it in this a flash. and the last thing i want to say is the virtue of friendship and relationships. you've got to take care of your relationships. not when you want something, not when you need something, you've got to take care of your relationships. and if there's one thing i would think i'd do a very good job at with my relationships because they are very important to me, my relationships, i think i picked up the phone and called about 70% of the people in this room to make sure -- because i really wanted you to be here. it was really important to us that you come because we want to not just reawaken the virtues in this room, but we need to reawaken the virtues of this nation and get this country back

ben carson and his wife, candy and my has-been morty and i are happy to have you in our home tonight for a friend, armstrong williams book signing. we meant armstrong a number of years ago that first year and alphonso jackson. alfonzo with the secretary of housing at the time. we became instant friends and still are great friends today. armstrong gave me his book a few months ago. i read it. i feel that it's philosophical. it is his biography. i have some issues with some of his comments. [laughter] i won't elaborate on any of those. but the important thing, what made me realize that he is something very important to say. and that is we have a really great country and we really were great and we really are great. but our compass broke somewhere along the line and it needs to get fixed. and it means to get six both politically. it needs to get fixed with friends and most importantly with family. i was telling armstrong today that it makes me very sad to realize how many kids today are in families that the mothers are working because they have to work. when i grew up, the only mothers

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have been although there were some very notable steps taken such as the abolition of the commies mortie of the soviet union and on the day mediately after the coup the raising of the try of the tri color flag as russia's national flag these were all symbolic events and there was a great deal of fervor in the air at the time as as will all recall can recall but sadly that got dissipated and i don't think you know even the communist party in its in its much weak in the form has managed or managed i should say at that time to throttle significant changes especially regionally so i think if if there had been an attempt to to undergo a gradual transition the results would have been even less impressive you know the desperate we had jeffrey it's interesting i mean we we've been talking about to russia the new russia emerging versus the soviet union still existed but it was really about got a bitch off in yeltsin after the coup in a lot of people will blame both political figures for making it very personal it was very about ambition is well and that i lost the ideas kind of got lost to the si