James Carville Quotes
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When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.
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My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
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Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
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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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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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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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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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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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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 have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
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Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted to read 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal,' you had to go to the reading room of the student union, and you got the edition several days after it had been published, and you had to read it on a wooden stick.
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You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.
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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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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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Let me buy a security pass … so that they can scan me and and search me and measure my penis, then let me get on the plane.
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Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker.