I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
— James Carville
I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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.
My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.
My populism doesn't extend to my choice of hotels.
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.
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 have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.
I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.
It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.
My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.
We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.
When I was a kid and L.S.U. lost, you didn't read the papers until, like, Thursday.
When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
Campaigns are about adjustments.
The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.
We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.
Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.
Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.
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.
It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.
I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.
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.
If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
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.
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.
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
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.
Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.
Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.
I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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.
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
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.
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.
Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.
The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
