Phil Gramm
Phil Gramm
William Philip "Phil" Grammis an American economist and politician, who has served as a Democratic Congressman, a Republican Congressmanand a Republican Senatorfrom 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 July 1942
CountryUnited States of America
Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.
Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.
I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.
We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big
The Cold War is over. We have a surplus. Shouldn't we give some of this money back to working families? ... I say yes; the president says no.
The conference report before us, I'm unhappy to say, makes a mockery out of the budget, ... In fact, if we adopt this conference report, I think that there is no need we should ever adopt another budget.
The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?
It says 'In God We Trust' on our coins, but it isn't that way in our hearts,
The Congress tends to guard its powers very jealously, now more so than ever. There's nothing wrong with the president educating the public about the line-item veto. But any president has really got to be prepared to use the veto power he already has.
It's sort of like the difference between love and prostitution, ... You don't pay people to like you.
If the best they can do in telling us what is right with them and what is wrong with us is that they want higher taxes and they want every state in the Union how to run health care, they are going to be in the minority for a very, very long time,
The debate here is not between reducing the debt and cutting taxes, ... The debate is between taxpayers spending money and Washington spending money.