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 Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
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.
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.
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.
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 problems; it hurts the country.
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
We are going to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance,
With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,
Each member is going to answer for where they were when Medicare went broke,
The way out is to vote 'guilty' or 'not guilty' and live with it,
It says 'In God We Trust' on our coins, but it isn't that way in our hearts,