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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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I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
James Carville
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville -
Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
James Carville -
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
James Carville -
Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.
James Carville -
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
James Carville
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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville -
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
James Carville -
Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
James Carville -
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
James Carville -
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
James Carville
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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.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville -
I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville -
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!
James Carville -
But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
James Carville
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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.
James Carville -
You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
James Carville -
John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
James Carville -
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.
James Carville