James Carville Quotes

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I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope. But now I want to be the bond market: you can intimidate everybody.

James Carville
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

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

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

James Carville
I didn't just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.

James Carville
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.

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

James Carville
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.

James Carville
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.

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

James Carville
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!

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

James Carville
Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.

James Carville
On the destruction of America:
Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth.

James Carville
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.

James Carville
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.

James Carville
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.

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

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

James Carville
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.

James Carville
Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

James Carville