James Carville Quotes

Politics is cyclical.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

A week is a long time in politics.

A week is a long time in politics.

Leaders respond when they perceive that there will be a political cost of inaction.

The icons of the past relied on political instinct. Now Presidents can use scientific polls and focus groups.

Polls make leadership impossible.

Only in politics do resurrections occur.

We ought to change polls, not to follow polls.

Forget the polls and remember the people.

The Pulse of Democracy

Not a single person in this country has voted and we already know we've been defeated. Modern technology takes a lot of the honest emotion out of politics.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.