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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He assumed the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon, under whom he served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 after the resignation of Spiro Agnew. A member of the Republican Party, Ford previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973.

Quotes from Gerald R. Ford

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

—Gerald R. Ford

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

—Gerald R. Ford

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

—Gerald R. Ford

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.

—Gerald R. Ford

If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

—Gerald R. Ford

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

—Gerald R. Ford

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that 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

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

—Gerald R. Ford