Quotes from James Carville

It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.

Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

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.

My populism doesn't extend to my choice of hotels.

The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

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.

The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

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

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

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

Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

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

Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted to read 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal,' you had to go to the reading room of the student union, and you got the edition several days after it had been published, and you had to read it on a wooden stick.

It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.