Quotes by James Carville

• But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
• I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
• 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 think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
• We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
• 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.
• You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
• When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
• The only thing I'm running for is the state line.
• Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
• No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
• If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
• If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
• 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.
• I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
• Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.