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You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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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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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
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The only thing I'm running for is the state line.
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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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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.
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[Hollywood] hates America.
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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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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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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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If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.
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I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.
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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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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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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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You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
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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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Never underestimate people.
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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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