James Carville

“Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.”

“Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.”

“I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.”

“The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.”

“When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.”

“We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.”

“The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.”

“I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.”

“I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.”

“When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.”

“The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.”

“I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.”

“Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.”

“As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.”

“Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.”

“Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you look back at the eight years. But there was a lot of good, too.”

“I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.”

“I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.”

“Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.”

“Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.”