American - President | July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
Gerald R. 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.
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
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Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
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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.
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