James Carville Quotes

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.

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.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

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.

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

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.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

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.

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.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

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.

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

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.

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

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

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.