James Carville Quotes

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

The first thing you've got to do in any kind of election campaign is be flexible.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

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Smilin' for the Presidency

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

Anybody who says negative commercials are wrong and shouldn't be used doesn't know anything about politics. The fact is people respond to those commercials.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

You sell your candidates and your programs the way a business sells its products.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.