James Carville Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

Never underestimate people.

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

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

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

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

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

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

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.

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.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

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

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

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

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.

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

[Hollywood] hates America.

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

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

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.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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

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

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.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

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

As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

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

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

What does he stand for?

Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

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

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

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].