More - James Carville Quotes

It was kind of like having a dream: You're riding a wagon down a hill and all of a sudden you're in a swimming pool, asking, 'How'd I get here?'

James Carville

 

Who is going to complain if traffic is tied up when you've got a city underwater? ... The mayor personally called me up and said he was behind this 100 percent.

James Carville

 

At a gut level, we know something's wrong. Instead of arguing about it, let's figure out what to do.

James Carville

 

[Conceding that the] bar is really high ... We're not here to make a good movie: We want to do something better than that. . . . And it ain't like we don't have a good cast.

James Carville

 

We learned from that one, ... When something like this happens, you got to get out in front of it. When we had our first disaster, the floods in Iowa in 1993, Clinton was right there, [saying] 'I feel your pain.'

James Carville

 

I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

James Carville

 Pope

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

James Carville

 Ethnic

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

James Carville

 American Lawyer

Look, the Democrats' numbers are just as low as the Republicans' are. People see a lot of this stuff just as 'more Washington.' But the danger for Republicans and for Bush is that there are too many things they can't control—and the odds are that all of them aren't going to work out in their favor.

James Carville

 Democrats

It makes sense, because if he appears with Gore, it just sucks all the air out of everything; it's all people want to talk about. . . . Gore is in a tight, tight, tight race, and he's got to make his case himself.

James Carville