James Carville Quotes
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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
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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.
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The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.
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We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.
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As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].
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Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
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I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.
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All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.
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What does he stand for?
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Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
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There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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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?
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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.
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[Hollywood] hates America.
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
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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.
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You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.
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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
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If you say three things, you don't say anything.
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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.
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The only thing I'm running for is the state line.
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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.
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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.
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These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?
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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.
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