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James Carville
American
Lawyer
Born:
Oct 25
,
1944
Good
Me
People
Politics
Think
You
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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.
James Carville
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Abortion
Church
Every
Democrat
Catholic
Catholics
Prove
Different
Position
In 1992, the most treasured voter was a voter that would sort of swing back and forth, one that might vote for Republican for president, Democrat for governor. The voter that didn't have that strong of a partisan ID. These were the voters that we targeted.
James Carville
Vote
Strong
President
Back
Would
ID
Voter
Voters
Most
Democrat
Partisan
Sort
Were
Governor
Targeted
Republican
Might
Forth
Swing
Treasured
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.
James Carville
You
Privacy
Become
Gone
Every
Think
Everybody
President
Run
Rip
Facade
Some
Wrong
Maintain
Proven
End
Gets
Just
In The End
Apart
Believes
Extent
Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you look back at the eight years. But there was a lot of good, too.
James Carville
Good
You
People
Passion
Too
Back
Ways
About
Both
Both Ways
Look
Causes
Years
Clinton
Lot
Person
Eight
Turmoil
Bill
Bill Clinton
Certainly
Who
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.
James Carville
Me
School
Try
Church
Country
Starts
Other
Say
Kind
Priest
Part
Altar
Catholic
Catholic School
Boy
Cousin
Up
Stops
Where
Grew
Separate
Hard
Who
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.
James Carville
Politics
Church
Thought
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Ways
Some
Johnson
Like
Most
Tragic
Very
Modern
Paul
Figure
Pope
Actually
It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
James Carville
Politics
Better
Married
Hates
Someone
Than
Your
Who
Momma
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.
James Carville
More
Know
Democrat
Democrats
Just
Republican
Republicans
Who
Many
Even
Hardly
Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.
James Carville
Cities
Democrats
Republicans
Cluster
I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
James Carville
Love
People
Young
Mine
Never
Identify
Goal
Up
Young People
Them
Grow
Grow Up
Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.
James Carville
Day
Me
People
Listening
Sit
Own
Nothing
Other
Conservatives
Liberals
All Day
Kind
Weakness
Would
Bore
More
Talk
Talking
Around
Bunch
Than
Literally
View
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.
James Carville
History
Political
Argument
Stupid
Own
Despite
Some
Leaders
Over
Course
Self-Interest
Governments
Times
Contrary
Done
Against
Regimes
Even
Things
Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
James Carville
History
College
Presidential
Worst
Point
Delta
House
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Campaigns
Grade
Romney
Average
I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.
James Carville
Side
Consumer
Like
Healthcare
Being
One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.
James Carville
Good
Favorite
Passing
Aspects
Basketball
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.
James Carville
Today
Strategy
Design
Setting
Headed
Democratic
Conditions
Off
Trajectory
Where
Polling
Should
Based
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.
James Carville
Challenge
Respected
Out
Would
Some
He
Always
How
Opponent
Go
Miami
Legendary
Any
Against
Bobby
Produced
Notre Dame
Games
University
Dame
I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
James Carville
Sometimes
Too Much
College
Long
Too
Spent
Atmosphere
Always
Loved
Which
Much
Why
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
James Carville
Great
Class
Commitment
People
Better
Made
Politicians
Everyone
Always
Expanding
Middle
Middle Class
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.
James Carville
Politics
Sometimes
Other
True
Learned
Said
Years
Than
After
Less
Things
The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.
James Carville
Good
Party
Presidential
Contest
Been
Any
Candidates
Republican
Might
Ever
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
James Carville
You
People
Own
Got
Against
Your
Campaigns are about adjustments.
James Carville
Adjustment
About
Campaigns
Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
James Carville
Politics
Great
Become
States
Sport
United
United States
Spectator
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
James Carville
Face
Every
Validity
Some
Somehow
Idea
Another
Because
Ludicrous
We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
James Carville
Other
Know
Democrats
Republicans
Each
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