Top 60 Carville Quotes
#1. Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
Bill Hader
#2. No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
James Carville
#3. Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
Paul Begala
#4. If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
D. A. Pennebaker
#5. The James Carville "herd of cows" quote is a fabrication, posted on the website thinkexist by someone going by thisoneworks. It has no attribution. Just another conservative propagandistic fabrication as far as I can tell.
James Carville
#6. Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.
Meghan McCain
#7. This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.
Mary Matalin
#8. I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
D. A. Pennebaker
#9. Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.
Ari Fleischer
#11. Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
James Carville
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
James Carville
#15. 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
#16. The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
James Carville
#17. 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
#18. Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
James Carville
#19. 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.
James Carville
#20. 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
#21. Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
James Carville
#22. 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
#23. The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.
James Carville
#24. 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
#25. Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
James Carville
#27. As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
James Carville
#28. 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
#29. I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville
#31. 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
#33. Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville
#34. All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.
James Carville
#35. 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
#36. Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
James Carville
#38. 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
#39. Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
James Carville
#40. The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.
James Carville
#41. 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.
James Carville
#42. If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.
James Carville
#43. I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville
#44. You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right?
James Carville
#45. You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
James Carville
#46. If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
James Carville
#47. You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
James Carville
#48. Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots
James Carville
#49. If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
James Carville
#51. 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
#52. Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
James Carville
#53. Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
James Carville
#55. I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
James Carville
#56. 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
#57. When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
James Carville
#58. 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.
James Carville
#59. 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
#60. These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?
James Carville
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