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I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

James Carville

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James Carville
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
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Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
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Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut 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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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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All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.
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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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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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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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