Gerald Ford Quotes
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
If Lincoln was alive today, he`d roll over in his grave.
(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens , his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)
(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure '” to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.
I`ll know I`m getting better at golf because I`m hitting fewer spectators.
It can go on and on, or someone must write `The End` to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)
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.
If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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.
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.
