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

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

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.

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.

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

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

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.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

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

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

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

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

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.

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

In the age old contest between popularity and principle only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posteritys approval.

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

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?

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.