James Carville Quotes

Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.

Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker.

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

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.

Why does a dog lick his dick? Because he can. Why does Congress spend money like that? Because it can.

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

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.

I didn’t just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.

You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

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.

Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0... blood alcohol level.

Let me buy a [security] pass … so that they can scan me and and search me and measure my penis, then let me get on the plane.

Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film The Deer Hunter there for nothing -- the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.

Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!