James Carville Quotes

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the Democrats became the status quo party and the Republicans became the 'undo the system' party.

It's abundantly clear the Democrats want to eliminate us.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!