Top 15 James Carville Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Look, if George W. Bush and his Republican cronies walked on water, I'd be the guy out there yelling that they couldn't swim. But don't take it from me: we've now heard it from the military commanders and our intelligence community: George Bush's actions in Iraq have not made us safer. They've done the opposite.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.