Gerald Ford Quotes

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"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 Ford
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"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 Ford
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"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators." Gerald Ford
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"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 Ford
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"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 Ford
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"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 Ford
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember." Gerald Ford
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." Gerald Ford
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"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 Ford
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"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 Ford
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"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 Ford
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"[That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens , his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.] He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns." Gerald Ford
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"[That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure — to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.] He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns." Gerald Ford
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"[That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.] He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns." Gerald Ford
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"I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." Gerald Ford
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"I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)" Gerald Ford
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"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 Ford
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"Teddy Roosevelt . . . once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter." Gerald Ford
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"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 Ford
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"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.(Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)" Gerald Ford
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"An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the Houseof Representatives considers it to be at a given moment inhistory." Gerald Ford
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