James Carville famous quotes

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
-- James Carville

#Government #Crooks #Want

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

#Abortion #Catholic #Church

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
-- James Carville

#Mind #Mindfulness #Mouths

Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.
-- James Carville

#Smart #Believe #Thinking

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
-- James Carville

#Gay #I Realized #Gay Marriage

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
-- James Carville

#Elbows #Want

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
-- James Carville

#Dumb #Lazy #Voters

What's the real difference between Republicans and Democrats? Let me tell ya the real difference ... Republicans will always take on people in the interest of power and good democrats will never fear to take on the power in the interests of people.
-- James Carville

#Real #Differences #People

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.
-- James Carville

#Two #Balls #Gave Up

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
-- James Carville

#Party #Believe #Fighting

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
-- James Carville

#Fighting #Florida #Want

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
-- James Carville

#Bills #Drag #Camps

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
-- James Carville

#Party #Teaching #Church

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.
-- James Carville

#People #Together #Rooftops

The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.
-- James Carville

#Country #Sick #Abuse

There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.
-- James Carville

#Love You #Simple #Giving

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
-- James Carville

#Done #Sometimes #Reason

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
-- James Carville

#Pieces #Hills #Democrat

[Hollywood] hates America.
-- James Carville

#Hate #America #Hollywood

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
-- James Carville

#Dirty #Diapers #Time For A Change

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

#New Orleans #Government #Hurricanes

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
-- James Carville

#Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #Alabama

What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.
-- James Carville

#Hands #Crowds #Hell

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.
-- James Carville

#Lying #Writing #Color

I didn’t just experiment with ***** – if you know what I mean.
-- James Carville

#Mean #Marijuana #Experiments

These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?
-- James Carville

#Hurt #Believe #People

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
-- James Carville

#Party #Thinking #America

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
-- James Carville

#Liars #Thinking #President

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
-- James Carville

#Mad #Advice

You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine 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

#Jobs #Military #Winning

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
-- James Carville

#Running #Religious #Teacher

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
-- James Carville

#Baseball #Thinking #Political

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.
-- James Carville

#Running #Lines #States

Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.
-- James Carville

#Softball #Guy #Answers

This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.
-- James Carville

#Real #War #Class

You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
-- James Carville

#New Orleans #Shoes #Needs

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
-- James Carville

#Fame #Profession

What does he stand for?
-- James Carville

#Stupid #Humorous #Doe

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
-- James Carville

#Idealism

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
-- James Carville

#Psychology #Important

If you say three things, you don't say anything.
-- James Carville

#Say Anything #Three

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
-- James Carville

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
-- James Carville