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

About Gerald R. Ford

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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...

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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

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

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

—Gerald R. Ford

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

—Gerald R. Ford

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

—Gerald R. Ford

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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

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

Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

—Abraham Lincoln

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