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James Carville
24 quotes
“Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It's the economy, stupid.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the 1993 documentary film The War Room.
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tony Kornheiser Show (January 15, 2010)
“John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet the Press, 4/14/2008
“You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN Election Night in America 11/7/2008
“[On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsweek, May 2, 2008.
“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 (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In All's fair: love, war, and running for president (2007), with Mary Matalin and Peter Knobler, p. 207
“[Hollywood] hates America.”
James Carville (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)”
James Carville (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his 6th September 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum on January 27, 2006.
“I didn’t just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum on January 27, 2006.
“Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0... blood alcohol level.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum on January 27, 2006.
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of speech to a group, in Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 2
“Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 21
“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.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1986, while working on a gubernatorial race
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 2006
“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 (born 1944) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 11, 2002, interview with Joan Walsh
“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: January 1996; thought to be a reference to Paula Jones and her charge that President Clinton had sexually assaulted her, but Carville insisted he meant Gennifer Flowers
“Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Carville – 1992, As quoted by Hunter S. Thompson, Better Than Sex, p. 189
“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.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wall Street Journal (February 25, 1993, p. A1)
“When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In All's fair: love, war, and running for president (2007), with Mary Matalin and Peter Knobler
“Why does a dog lick his dick? Because he can. Why does Congress spend money like that? Because it can.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Agenda (1994), Bob Woodward
“Sign on the wall in the 1992 Clinton campaign headquarters : The economy, stupid.”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Agenda (1994), Bob Woodward