James Carville

"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."

"Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over."

"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 always wanted to be a sports broadcaster."

"I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece."

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."

"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."

"It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma."

"Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that."

"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 become famous, being famous becomes your profession."