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When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
James Carville -
I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
James Carville
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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.
James Carville -
I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.
James Carville -
The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.
James Carville -
I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.'
James Carville -
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
James Carville -
It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.
James Carville
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Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.
James Carville -
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
James Carville -
Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
James Carville -
During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.
James Carville -
One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville
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My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.
James Carville -
When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
James Carville -
No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
James Carville -
Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
James Carville -
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville -
The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.
James Carville
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What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
James Carville -
When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.
James Carville -
My populism doesn't extend to my choice of hotels.
James Carville -
I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.
James Carville