Top 71 Gramm Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#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.

Phil Gramm

#3. I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

Lou Gramm

#4. 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.

Phil Gramm

#5. I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#7. Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Lou Gramm

#8. The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#11. Achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#13. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#15. When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.

Lou Gramm

#16. Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.

Lou Gramm

#17. I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#23. It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

Lou Gramm

#24. We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#26. I opted out of the band.

Lou Gramm

#27. As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#30. 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.

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#35. I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#37. We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Lou Gramm

#38. 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.

Phil Gramm

#39. After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

Lou Gramm

#40. You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Joe Lieberman

#41. I gave my life to Christ about 1991.

Lou Gramm

#42. I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm

Natasha Larry

#43. Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

Gail Collins

#44. It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Lou Gramm

#45. For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

Lou Gramm

#46. I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

Lou Gramm

#47. 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.

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#49. The world has a harder time breaking a good sense of humor, John Gramm

Natasha Larry

#50. Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

Lou Gramm

#51. 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.

Phil Gramm

#52. Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

Lou Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#55. A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

Lou Gramm

#56. We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

Lou Gramm

#57. Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

Lou Gramm

#58. 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.

Phil Gramm

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

Phil Gramm

#60. Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

Lou Gramm

#61. 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.

Phil Gramm