Phil Gramm

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

“We've got to stop sending the message that we want you to be a victim.”

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners.”

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

“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.”

“The best way to get a project done is to get it to the point where it is a fiasco and then everybody will want to get on and get it done.”

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

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

“If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.”

“The free enterprise system is not a system of winners and losers. It's a system of winners and those who are going to be winners.”

“Each of us has a spark of the divine in us. If we're going to be free, we have to act on that.”

“Government is not the generator of economic growth; government is the consumer of economic growth.”