James Carville Quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

In friendships, you expect total trust; in business you expect some dishonesty. But in politics, you not only expect distortion as a way of life but accept it with pleasure.

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

... political pornography.