Quotes from Phil Gramm

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Misery sells newspapers.

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.