43 James Carville Quotes

James Carville quotes

1. '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.' (Referring to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton on GoodFriday).

2. (Hollywood) hates America.

3. Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth.' (On the destruction of America)

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

5. 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.

6. I didn't just experiment with marijuana - if you know what I mean.

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

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

9. '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.'

10. 'When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.' - in his 25th January 2006 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

11. * January 1996, reported as referring to Clinton's accuser Paula Jones and her charge that President Clinton had sexually assaulted her, but Carville insisted he meant Gennifer Flowers

12. * Remarking about the 1992 Election.

13. Republicans now have their own network on Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.

14. 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 Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true! [1]

15. But one of Clinton's problems was, the interest groups don't care about the working poor. The Republicans don't care about the working poor - they don't know any. The Op-Ed writers don't care about the working poor. The editorial writers don't care about the working poor. The talking heads don't care about the working poor.

16. Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

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

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

19. We didn't find the key to the electoral lock...we just picked it.

20. 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.

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

22. 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.

23. You show me a winner and I'll show you someone who's lost a lot, You show me someone who's never lost and you show me a loser - someone who's never tried. The more a person wants to succeed in life and the bigger they dream, the more likely they are to fail.

24. Between Paoli (one of Philadelphia's westernmost suburbs) and Penn Hills (one of Pittsburgh's easternmost suburbs), Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film 'The Deerhunter' there for nothing -- the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.[2]

1. People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

2. I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

3. As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of race relations or civil rights. Remember senator, we all make errors. Committing errors is not a tragedy, but failing to learn from them is a great one.

4. Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

5. My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

6. We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

7. When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

8. When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

9. I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.

10. Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

11. If you say three things, you don't say anything.

12. The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

13. We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

14. Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

15. Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

16. I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.

17. Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

18. Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

19. Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.