James Carville Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This site sucks garbage bags full of dicks.

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

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.

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

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

What does he stand for?

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

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

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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

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.

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

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

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is an absolute and total lie. James Carville never said this. And he never said anything like this. I did some research and you'll find this quote posted by right-wing media propagandists in various areas from "thinkexist" to "godlikeproducts" to random posts on "quotesdaddy." JUST BECAUSE SOME POSTS IT, DOES NOT MEAN IT'S TRUE. Respect yourself, and do some research. They've played you for a fool, and you're doing their dirty work for them by posting such garbage. In the long run, it makes our country more stupid and more mean. No one wins.

You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The James Carville "herd of cows" quote is a fabrication, posted on the website thinkexist.com by someone going by thisoneworks. It has no attribution. Just another conservative propagandistic fabrication as far as I can tell.

Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots

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

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

I eat babies, shit them out and use the feces that contains their mangled remains for bullet casings. Which I use to kill Republicans.

HA HA HA REPUBLICANS ARE DUMB.

Never underestimate people.

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

I've got enormous breasts.