James Carville Quotes
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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.
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We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
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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 love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
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The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.
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My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.
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I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.
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If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
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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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It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.
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The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
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Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
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When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.
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Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.
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Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film The Deer Hunter there for nothing - the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.
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When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
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I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
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I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
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It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.