James Carville Quotes

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

We liked to think that polling and political analysis had become scientific, but this campaign changes all that.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

I don't think we'll win every election.

Popular elections are uncertain.

If it's Clinton versus Trump, all Indians are voting for Trump.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.