Phil Gramm quotes:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

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.

Misery sells newspapers.

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

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

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

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

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

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

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

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

The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

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

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

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

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