James Carville: Governance

James Carville is political writer, consultant and United States Marine. Explore interesting quotes on governance.

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“Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast — that was an act of God … Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.”

in a speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum on January 27, 2006.

“Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.”

In Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 21 http://books.google.com/books?id=gH4bMmu4CA4C

“At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, adviser James Carville was stunned at the power the bond market had over the government. If he came back, Carville said: I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a.400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

Wall Street Journal (February 25, 1993, p. A1)