James Carville Quotes

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

Liberals ... enjoy the company of other liberals, just as conservatives enjoy the company of other conservatives.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They're tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.