James Carville Quotes
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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?
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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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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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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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My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
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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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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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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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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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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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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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I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.