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James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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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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Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?
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Never underestimate people.
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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 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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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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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
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You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
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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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The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.
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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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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 voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
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I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.
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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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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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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops it's easier to get away with murder.
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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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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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