A biography for James Carvillehasn’t been written yet.
“If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.”
“But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.”
“Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.”
“Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.”
“When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.”
“One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.”
“It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.”
“I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.”
“It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.”
“I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.”
“There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.”
“I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.”
“The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.”
“The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.”
“I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.”
“When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.”
“I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.”
“This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.”
“If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.”
“Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.”