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I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Quote by 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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about football, name, word, day

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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about defeat, attack, victory

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

Quote by 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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about future, children

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

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about tragedy, americans

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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about nation, people

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

Quote by 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.

Quote by 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...

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about country, world

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

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about experience, people

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

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about enemies, life

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford

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

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about love

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford

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

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about hope

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

Quote by 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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about honesty, public, end

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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about 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.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about quality, proudness, nation, people