193 Quotes by James Carville

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    Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

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    Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

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    Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

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    When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

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    When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.

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    My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

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    If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

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    When I was a kid and L.S.U. lost, you didn't read the papers until, like, Thursday.

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    I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.

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