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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.
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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.
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I didn't just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.
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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.
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[On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.
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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.
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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.
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Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.
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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!
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You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.
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On the destruction of America:
Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
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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.
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Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
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Born:
October 25, 1944
(age 80)
Bio:
Chester James Carville, Jr. is an American political commentator and media personality who is a prominent figure in the Democratic Party.
Known for:
We're right, they're wrong (1996)
It's the Middle Class, Stupid! (2012)
Most used word:
market
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