James Carville Quotes
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Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
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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.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
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I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
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The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.
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In 1992, the most treasured voter was a voter that would sort of swing back and forth, one that might vote for Republican for president, Democrat for governor. The voter that didn't have that strong of a partisan ID. These were the voters that we targeted.
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Hollywood hates America.
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
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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.
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Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God … Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.
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I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.
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Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!
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I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.
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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.
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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
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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.
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Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
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There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.
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I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.