Gerald R. Ford Quotes - Page 4

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• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Courage, Principles, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Technique, Firsts, Rhetoric

  Time Magazine Interview, February 2, 1976.

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• The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Other Cultures, People, Support

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Islamic, Years

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, Hair, Orange

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• When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Men, Speech, Firsts

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• We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Should Have, Tasks, Purpose

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Television Commercials, Television, Millions

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks at a "Humor and the Presidency Symposium" at Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as quoted in US Weekly Magazine, November 3, 1986.

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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 R. Ford

  Drinking, Patriotic, Lunch

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks to the National Restaurant Association, in Chicago, Illinois, May 28, 1978.

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• 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

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Two, Office, House

  Remarks in House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970

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• I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Real, Opportunity, Government

  "A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford". Book by Gerald R. Ford, 1979.

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• 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

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, Giving Up, Littles

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Watches, Radio

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• I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Stupidity, Break, Watergate

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• I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Government, Oil

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks on his nomination to be Vice-President during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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• In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dream, Freedom, Taken

  Gerald R. Ford's Address at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 31, 1976.

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• In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Way

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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 R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  World, Massage, Grim Reaper

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. 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. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Believe, Home

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Campaigns, Littles

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• 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

  Children, Appreciate, Firsts

  The New York Post, August 13, 1974.

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