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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
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This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.
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The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.
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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.
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[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked.
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Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
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There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].
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You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true.
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You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
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When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.
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Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.
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I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
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These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?
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It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.
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I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think.
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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
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