Quotes By James Carville

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

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

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

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.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

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

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

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

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

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

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.

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

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

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.

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

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.