Carville Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. — James Carville

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win. — Paul Begala

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never underestimate people. — 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

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

The picture of Chelsea and me that flashed around the world showed a happy mother-daughter team perched on our pachyderm and watching a rare Asian rhino. Later, when we got back to Washington, James Carville remarked: "Don't you just love it? You spent two years trying to get people better health care and they tried to kill you. You and Chelsea rode an elephant, and they loved you! — Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

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

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

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy. — Mary Matalin

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

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

I've got enormous breasts. — James Carville