James Carville Quotes
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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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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
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I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.
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No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
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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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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
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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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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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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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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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You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana - if you know what I mean.