James Carville Quotes
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
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My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.
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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
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This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
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I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.
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I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
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Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
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You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.
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When I was a kid and L.S.U. lost, you didn't read the papers until, like, Thursday.
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Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
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My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
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After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.
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We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
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Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
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We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.
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I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
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If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
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I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.
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I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
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Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
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Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you look back at the eight years. But there was a lot of good, too.