Quotes by Phil Gramm

About Phil Gramm:

William Philip is an American economist and politician, who has served as a Democratic Congressman (1979–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator (1985–2002) from Texas. He later became a lobbyist for UBS and founded a public policy and lobbying firm, Gramm Partners. He was a senior economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign from the summer of 2007 until July 18, 2008.
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Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

Phil Gramm

I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

Phil Gramm

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Phil Gramm

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Phil Gramm

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Phil Gramm

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

Phil Gramm

It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's p...

Phil Gramm

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

Phil Gramm

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Phil Gramm

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

Phil Gramm

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

Phil Gramm

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Phil Gramm

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Phil Gramm

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

Phil Gramm

Author Bio

  • NamePhil Gramm
  • DescriptionAmerican economist and politician
  • BornJuly 8, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Entrepreneur