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Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
– Gerald R. Ford
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
– Gerald R. Ford
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
– Gerald R. Ford
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
– Gerald R. Ford
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
– Gerald R. Ford
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
– Gerald R. Ford
I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
– Gerald R. Ford
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
– Gerald R. Ford
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
– Gerald R. Ford
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
– Gerald R. Ford
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
– Gerald R. Ford
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
– Gerald R. Ford
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
– Gerald R. Ford
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
– Gerald R. Ford
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
– Gerald R. Ford
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
– Gerald R. Ford
It can go on and on, or someone must write The End to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
– Gerald R. Ford
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
– Gerald R. Ford
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
– Gerald R. Ford
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
– Gerald R. Ford
Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
– Gerald R. Ford
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
– Gerald R. Ford
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
– Gerald R. Ford
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
– Gerald R. Ford
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
– Gerald R. Ford
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
– Gerald R. Ford
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
– Gerald R. Ford
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
– Gerald R. Ford
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
– Gerald R. Ford
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
– Gerald R. Ford
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
– Gerald R. Ford
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
– Gerald R. Ford
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
– Gerald R. Ford