James Carville Quotes

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James Carville

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : October 25, 1944

Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

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

Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.

James Carville

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

James Carville

The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

James Carville

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

James Carville

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

James Carville

When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

James Carville

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

James Carville

My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.

James Carville

Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

James Carville

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

James Carville

Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.

James Carville

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

James Carville

The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.

James Carville

We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

James Carville

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

James Carville

In 1992, the most treasured voter was a voter that would sort of swing back and forth, one that might vote for Republican for president, Democrat for governor. The voter that didn't have that strong of a partisan ID. These were the voters that we targeted.

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

I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

James Carville