Phil Gramm

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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