Gerald R. Ford Quotes

Gerald R. Ford (32)

Birth:	14th July, 1913
Death:	26th December, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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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 R. Ford

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Nation, Stability

• 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

  Topics in Confidence, Honesty

  Tags in President

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, President, Propaganda, Campaign

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Election

• There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Government, Scheme

• History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Experience, History

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Opposition

• 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

  Topics in Children, Education

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men And Women, Moral, Ideas

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• 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 R. Ford

  Topics in America

  Tags in Political, Lesson

• I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Political

• An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Tragedy

• I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

• I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Self -Love

• If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President

• I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Reconciliation

• I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Ballot