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
If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.
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.
I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.
Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it was a one time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally.
Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.
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