James Carville Quotes
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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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I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.
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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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No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
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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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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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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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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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Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.
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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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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
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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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Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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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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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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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
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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.