James Carville Quotes

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

To ruin those who possess something is not to come to the aid of those who possess nothing; it is only to render misery general.

There was no pity take of the poor people, who wrought never no manner of treason, yet they bought it dearer than the great personages, such as had done the evil and trespass