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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
James Carville
Happy
Whatever
Scars
Remarkably
Had
Self-Inflicted
Childhood
Happy Childhood
When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.
James Carville
Face
Garbage
Out
John
John Kerry
About
Head
Wrong
Smashed
Dumped
Egg
Prediction
Elections
Pan
Kerry
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
James Carville
State
State University
Favorite
Outside
Football
Louisiana
Any
Derby
Saturday
Kentucky
Plays
University
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville
Gay
Marriage
Gay Marriage
Until
Get
Against
Realized
Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.
James Carville
Education
Public Education
Want
Public
Succeed
The only thing I'm running for is the state line.
James Carville
State
Running
Only
Line
The Only Thing
Thing
I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
James Carville
Me
People
World
Political
Say
Would
Daughters
Democrats
How
Affiliation
Close
Going
Door
Them
Ask
Convince
Ever
I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
James Carville
Sports
Broadcaster
Always
Wanted
Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
James Carville
Nothing
Enjoy
Honestly
Other
More
Than
Going
After
Republicans
Each
Two
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.
James Carville
God
You
Political
Become
Ranks
Status
Consulting
Counsel
Allowed
Retired
Knows
Domestic
American
Quit
Senior
Just
Really
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.
James Carville
Time
Vote
People
Political
Problems
Out
Perceived
My Time
Most
Vexing
So Many People
Against
Interests
Figuring
Many
Strategist
Why
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.
James Carville
Country
Single
Dissent
Tell
All-Powerful
Something
Students
Powerful
Powerful Thing
Most
Most Powerful
Narrative
Questioning
Literally
Harbors
Thing
Elite
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.
James Carville
Me
Library
Side
See
Borrowed
Could
Principles
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Were
Mobile
Very
Mockingbird
Going
Represent
Sixteen
Different
Which
Republicans
Standing
Copy
But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
James Carville
Predict
Rather
Affect
If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
James Carville
Angry
You
Fighting
Him
Gore
Want
Harder
Florida
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
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