Phil Gramm Quotes

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

By us, and not for us

There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Society is better off without certain people.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Why do you all push us around?

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.