James Carville Quotes
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
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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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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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The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.
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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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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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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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When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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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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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
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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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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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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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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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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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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.