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James Carville (born October 25, 1944) is a Fox News contributor, American political consultant, commentator, media personality, and pundit. Also known as the "Ragin' Cajun" or "Corporal Cue Ball", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.
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John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.
Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.
Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.
In Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003)
Sign on the wall in the 1992 Clinton campaign headquarters : The economy, stupid.
The Agenda (1994)
Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It's the economy, stupid.
Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.
You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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.
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.
Why does a dog lick his dick? Because he can. Why does Congress spend money like that? Because it can.
The Agenda (1994)
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.
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.
Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
I didn’t just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.
Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0... blood alcohol level.
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.
[On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.
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 I now want to comeback as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
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