Phil Gramm's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.