(b.July 8, 1942), a U.S. Senator from Texas, elected 1985, was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, 1996. He served as a U.S. Representative from Texas, 96th–98th Congresses; and taught economics at Texas A&M University, 1967–78.
On October 18, 1994, commenting on America’s Founding Fathers, Senator Phil Gramm stated:
The problems they faced were overwhelming as compared to ours. But they had two things, it seems to me that we don’t have enough of today. They had faith and they had will. They had faith that God did not raise America as a beacon of hope for the world, only to let us fail. And they had the will to act, the will to risk everything in order to build a country that would be a model for the world. I believe this creed is as true today as it was then. And if we have faith, if we are willing to act on that faith, I believe we can remake America.3893