"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."

"Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find."

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

"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."

"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."

"The only thing I'm running for is the state line."

"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."

"If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida."

"I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself."

"You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan."

"No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously."

"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."

"The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans."

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

"Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble."

"If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two."

"There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match."

"Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even."

"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."

"What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do."

"Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change."

"Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between."

"If you say three things, you don't say anything."

"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."