Bill Carrick Quotes (8 Quotes)

The idea that by passing term limits, you could eliminate politicians from running for office was extraordinarily naive.

All these years, you've been filling in your diaries saying you've been watching 'Masterpiece Theatre,' ... Now they know you're watching 'Desperate Housewives.'

I think they ought to move to South Carolina, some place where you can sell that stuff, ... Union bashing has never worked in California.

Democratic manager Bill Carrick can find no escape route from Davis' budget crisis Every option he has now is bad. Whatever you propose to do, voters do not like. ... Do you invite him to appear on the platform with your candidate Do you use him to raise money Does the nominee risk appointing, or rejecting, the governor to be the campaign's state chairman

He's in some ways a laid back guy. The challenge is you're on this big stage, so there's a lot of people that want to be inspired. They want to be motivated. Passion is a valuable asset in politics.

What he's doing is more an immunization thing rather than a real opportunity for voters to rally around the cause of this particular collection of tax cuts,

To me, Bush is saying, 'I agree with the Democrats that the federal government ought to have an activist role.' He's becoming Democrat-light.

I think it gets to the point where the question is whether he has any effectiveness as a governor. This guy is the governor of California and what's he doing