Phil Gramm Quotes

#1. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

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#4. I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

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#5. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

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#6. Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

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#7. We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

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#8. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

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#9. We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

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#10. I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

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#11. I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

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#12. Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

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#13. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

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#14. Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

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#15. All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

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#16. Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

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#17. 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.

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#18. If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.

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#19. I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

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#20. I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

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#21. Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

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#22. I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

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#23. I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news ... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

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#24. 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.

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#25. The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

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#26. Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

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#27. The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

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#28. I'd rather go to the dentist ... but I'm going.

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#29. 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.

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#30. We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

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#34. You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

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#35. Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

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