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 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.
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.
Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.
I'm quite confident the gentleman from Illinois will get his chance to vote on Governor Bush's tax cut next year,
It's sort of like the difference between love and prostitution, ... You don't pay people to like you.
The bill must benefit consumers by making the broadest array of financial services available at the lowest possible price, ... If it doesn't do that, then it's not worth having.
The Congress tends to guard its powers very jealously, now more so than ever. There's nothing wrong with the president educating the public about the line-item veto. But any president has really got to be prepared to use the veto power he already has.
With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,
Tonight we have laid the foundation to make history,
Each member is going to answer for where they were when Medicare went broke,
We are going to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance,
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