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 genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people
People want to be on both sides of the issue. They want to say the president's not guilty, (and) they want to say the president's guilty, ... Meet The Press.
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,
It's sort of like the difference between love and prostitution, ... You don't pay people to like you.
The people who are dragging American bodies (through Somalia) don't look very hungry to the people of Texas
I believe 20 years from now when people look back at the Clinton era that the vote on normal trade relations with China will be one of the most historic votes cast in this -- during the eight years of the Clinton Administration,
We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.
All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.
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.
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.
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,