James Carville Quotes

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

I could make a difference.

Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a difference?

You’ve got to seize an opportunity to make a difference.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

What happens next is up to you.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.