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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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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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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
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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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Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
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Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.
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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
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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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If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.
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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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There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.
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If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
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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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