James Carville Quotes

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.

James Carville

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• The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • City
  • Broken

• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Long
  • Die

• It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Hollywood
  • Credit

• I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Enjoy

• I love my friends. They're my family.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Family
  • Friends

• The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Done
  • Today

• I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Good

• The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Country
  • Free
  • Political

• 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.

  

  James Carville
  • Political