James Carville Quotes

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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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'd like to do more acting.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Like
  • Acting
  • More

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Free
  • End

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • American
  • Education
  • Best

• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • People
  • History
  • True

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Waiting
  • Writer
  • Newcomers

• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Ideas

• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fun

• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Men

• There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Up

• It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • True
  • Age

• My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

  

  David Mamet
  • Business
  • Help
  • Friend

• It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Real
  • Case

• 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.

  

  James Carville
  • True