Education Quote by James Carville

Carville’s line is pitched like a pep talk, but it’s really a political rebuke aimed at anxious modern liberals: stop treating religion as a toxic asset. The verbs do the work. “Run away” frames secular discomfort as fear, not principle; “run to” recasts faith as shelter, not restraint. In eight words, he flips the posture from defensive tolerance to proactive embrace, a rhetorical move designed to shame cultural elites who treat religious language as something to tiptoe around in public life.

The subtext is classic Carville: messaging discipline disguised as moral seriousness. He’s not issuing a catechism; he’s arguing that religious teachings remain one of the few mass, emotionally legible vocabularies Americans share. If you abandon that vocabulary, you cede whole communities to opponents who will happily translate policy into parables about duty, family, and justice. “Should” also matters: it’s advice with a wagging finger, a command presented as common sense.

Contextually, this fits the late-20th/early-21st century Democratic hang-up: a coalition strong on policy arguments but often uneasy with the cultural grammar of churchgoing America. Carville, a Catholic-tinged Cajun pragmatist, isn’t asking people to fake belief; he’s urging them to stop acting as if religious teaching is inherently embarrassing or reactionary. The line works because it’s aspirational and combative at once: faith as both refuge and rallying point, a way to talk about ethics without sounding like you’re reading from a white paper.