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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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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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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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 dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
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My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
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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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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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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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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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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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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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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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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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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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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana - if you know what I mean.
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On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.