Phil Gramm Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”