Gerald Ford

Every President has quotes attributed to him, good and bad even in photos. Remember Richard Richard Nixon waving goodbye?

Or saying. "I am not a crook."

Even George W. Bush over the campaign season (wincing) "Stay the course".

Gerald Ford had some succient quotes of his own and even a dry wit as well.

My top ten Gerald R. Ford quotations:

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.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

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.

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.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
1913-2006

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