James Carville Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Sign on the wall in the 1992 Clinton campaign headquarters : The economy, stupid.

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.

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

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

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.

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