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Misery sells newspapers.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Misery
Newspapers
Sells
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Sophia Loren is not a citizen.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Politics
Citizens
Sexism
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I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Dentist
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I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Pork
Beginning
Carrying
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You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Heard
Recessions
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I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Gun
Needs
Want
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Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Doe
Joy
Underwear
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I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Dream
Action
Looks
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Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Cotton
Half
Underwear
Does
Wearing
Joys
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Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Government
Economic
Economic Growth
Generator
Growth
People
Working
Working People
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We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
People
Poor
World
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I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Government
Disappointed
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Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Economy
Newspapers
Thank God
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We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Dog
Hunting
Party
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I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
Important
Would Be
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We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Economy
Globalization
Lasts
Years
Greatly
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I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Accepting
Defeat
Finals
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I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Politics
American Politics
Political
Ready
Usa
Friend
Reliable
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If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Dog
Groceries
Way
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There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Tax Cuts
Bush
Bush Tax Cuts
Cuts
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The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Mccain
Senator
Democrats
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You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
Complaining
Loss
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I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Texas
Think Big
Thinking
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There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
Form
Successful
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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
Ordinary
People
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Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
Law
People
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Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
United States Of America
Advance
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The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Immigrants
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Extraordinary
Genius
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Results
Plain
System
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Heaven
Political
Want
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All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
America
People
World
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Running
Baby
President
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I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
American Government
Committed
Government Believe I Believe
Dole
Fundamentally
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
United States Of America
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Hands
Not Fair
Ought
Pay
People
Taxes
Capital
Earn
Fair
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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 a tax cut, ... This Week.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Cutting
Giving Money
Reality
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Home
Enabling
Gas
National Security
Oil
Produce
Security
Thinking
Afford
Bolster
Frankly
Immediately
Price
Quite Frankly
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Bad News
Commentary
Growth
Negative
News
Steady
Measured
Mental
Recession
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Carbon
China And India
Crucial
Driven
Expensive
Program
Anything Else
Discourage
Worldwide
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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.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Concrete
Debate
Distraction
Mccain
Attack
Democrats
Hurts
Facing
Programs
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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 time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Country
Law
People
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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 with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.
Phil Gramm / Former American Senator
Reality
Thinking
White
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