James Carville Quotes
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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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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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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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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.
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Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.
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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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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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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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Hollywood hates America.
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I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.
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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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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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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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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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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.
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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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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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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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The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
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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.
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Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.