Chester James Carville Jr. Quotes

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.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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

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

The only thing I’m running for is the state line.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

If you didn’t have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Ideologies aren’t all that important. What’s important is psychology.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

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

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

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.

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

But I’d rather not predict. I’d rather affect.