James Carville Quotes

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

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.

Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.

Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)

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

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

[On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.

Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.

John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.