Quotes from Gerald R. Ford

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

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

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

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

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

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

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

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

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

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

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.

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.