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
The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,
If we're going to vote on extraneous amendments that our Democrat colleagues want to vote on, then I want to vote on amendments that I think will benefit the country,
I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.
He has reminded me in this debate of an ancient god Aeneas whose mother was the Earth, and every time he was thrown to the ground he got up stronger than he had been when he was cast to the ground,
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 way out is to vote 'guilty' or 'not guilty' and live with it,
With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,
There have been 15 impeachments, there have been 15 trials and there have been 15 verdicts rendered by the Senate ... I think in the end we are going to follow the Constitution,
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
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.
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people
We face some very high hurdles, and negotiations will require a tremendous effort,