James Carville Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 55 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by James Carville.
Famous Quotes By James Carville
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
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
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
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
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
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. — James Carville
The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it. — James Carville
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
Never underestimate people. — James Carville
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
This site sucks garbage bags full of dicks. — James Carville
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes. — James Carville
If you say three things, you don't say anything. — 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
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
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
Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even. — James Carville
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason. — James Carville
No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously. — 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
The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey. — James Carville
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
Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots — James Carville
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. — James Carville
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. — James Carville
The only thing I'm running for is the state line. — James Carville
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? — James Carville
The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. — James Carville
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
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder. — James Carville
I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. — James Carville
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them. — James Carville
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
But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect. — James Carville
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
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. — James Carville
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
If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida. — James Carville
If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two. — James Carville
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
Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find. — James Carville
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. — James Carville
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
These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything? — James Carville
Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble. — James Carville
All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right. — James Carville
Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. — James Carville
Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it. — James Carville
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
Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change. — James Carville
You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right? — James Carville
What does he stand for? — James Carville
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one. — James Carville
I've got enormous breasts. — James Carville