Quotes by Phil Gramm

• Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
• The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
• 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.
• 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'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.
• I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
• Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
• I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.