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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.
I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.
My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.
It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.
I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.
The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.
Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?
When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.
Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.
During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.
I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.
I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.
When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.
I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.
I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.
They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.
I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].
If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.