Phil Gramm Quotes

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

My political stand is beyond my family.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

I used to be a conservative.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.