James Carville Quotes:
After all of my years in politics, I’ve learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.
James Carville
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you’re going to get hit in the mouth.
James Carville
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
James Carville
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.
James Carville
Campaigns are about adjustments.
James Carville
During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.
James Carville
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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.
James Carville
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
James Carville
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
James Carville
I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest – it’s part of my DNA. It’s kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.
James Carville
I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
James Carville
I knew that manual labor wasn’t the career for me.
James Carville
I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
James Carville
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?
James Carville
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.
James Carville
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn’t matter who was president.
James Carville
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
I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty – whatever my personal misgivings – to stick by him.
James Carville
I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn’t describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I’m extremely fortunate.
James Carville
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