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Zitat des Tages von James Carville:

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Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.

James Carville

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.

James Carville

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

James Carville

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

James Carville

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

James Carville

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.

James Carville

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

James Carville

I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.

James Carville

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

My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.

James Carville

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.

James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

James Carville

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

James Carville

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

James Carville

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

James Carville

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.

James Carville

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?

James Carville

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

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

James Carville

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

James Carville

I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.'

James Carville

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

James Carville

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

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.

James Carville

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

James Carville

I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.

James Carville

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

James Carville

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

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

James Carville

The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.

James Carville

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

James Carville

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

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

James Carville

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

James Carville

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

James Carville

With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

James Carville