Phil Gramm Quotes

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• ...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…
• Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
• I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.
• If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.
• 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…
• 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…
• I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
• 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…
• You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.
• You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
• Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.
• Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.
• 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…
• I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.
• Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
• I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big
• The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
• I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.
• I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.
• 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…

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