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

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

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald R. Ford

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

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 love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Gerald R. Ford

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
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