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
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.
No other issue has created as much concern in this bill as the issue of whether employers can be sued as a result of a dispute that arises out of the liability sections of this bill,
While people thought we might settle the issue today, in the end this issue was going to end up in Washington across the street in the Supreme Court and I think that's where it will end next week,
With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,
The world changes, and Congress and the laws have to change with it,
Each member is going to answer for where they were when Medicare went broke,
Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,
We are going to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance,
I want a program to get us started,
There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people
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.