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All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
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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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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops it's easier to get away with murder.
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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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[Hollywood] hates America.
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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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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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You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.
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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
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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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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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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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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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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.
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You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.
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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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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
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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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