Top 71 Gramm Quotes
#1. I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm
Natasha Larry
#2. 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
#3. The world has a harder time breaking a good sense of humor, John Gramm
Natasha Larry
#4. 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
#5. I'd rather go to the dentist ... but I'm going.
Phil Gramm
#6. I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.
Lou Gramm
#7. The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
Phil Gramm
#8. Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
Lou Gramm
#9. 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
#10. Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.
Lou Gramm
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
Lou Gramm
#14. For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.
Lou Gramm
#15. It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.
Lou Gramm
#16. I gave my life to Christ about 1991.
Lou Gramm
#17. After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
Lou Gramm
#18. 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
#19. We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.
Lou Gramm
#20. I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.
Phil Gramm
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
Lou Gramm
#25. 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
#26. We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.
Phil Gramm
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. It was kind of fun being the headliners.
Lou Gramm
#30. It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
Lou Gramm
#31. 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.
Phil Gramm
#32. I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
Lou Gramm
#33. You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
Lou Gramm
#34. Life is simple, it's either cherry red or midnight blue.
Lou Gramm
#35. There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
Phil Gramm
#36. You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.
Phil Gramm
#37. I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
Lou Gramm
#38. The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
Lou Gramm
#39. Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.
Lou Gramm
#40. 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
#41. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
Phil Gramm
#42. 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
#43. We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
Phil Gramm
#44. 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
#45. Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
Phil Gramm
#46. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.
Phil Gramm
#47. I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.
Lou Gramm
#48. Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
Lou Gramm
#49. I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.
Phil Gramm
#50. I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
Lou Gramm
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
#55. Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
Phil Gramm
#56. I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.
Phil Gramm
#57. 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
#58. If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.
Phil Gramm
#59. 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
#60. Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
Phil Gramm
#61. 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
#62. As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.
Lou Gramm
#64. Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
Phil Gramm
#65. We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.
Lou Gramm
#66. It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
Lou Gramm
#67. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
Phil Gramm
#68. Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.
Phil Gramm
#69. I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm
#70. I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big
Phil Gramm
#71. We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.
Phil Gramm
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