Phil Gramm Quotes

The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

Every ten years we hear this story: “America is in decline.” Don’t you believe it.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

I think people like to have something to have a moan about.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

Whining is anger through a small opening.

America is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody.

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

We have spent, right now, $6 trillion in the Middle East, and America is falling apart. It's not right.

At a time of great challenge in the life of America, where we've weakened America's place in the world, stifled America's economy, the campaign of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine has been an avalanche of insults.

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?