193 Quotes by James Carville

The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.

During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

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.

After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.

I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.