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 point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?
The debate here is not between reducing the debt and cutting taxes, ... The debate is between taxpayers spending money and Washington spending money.
If the best they can do in telling us what is right with them and what is wrong with us is that they want higher taxes and they want every state in the Union how to run health care, they are going to be in the minority for a very, very long time,
I'm quite confident the gentleman from Illinois will get his chance to vote on Governor Bush's tax cut next year,
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.