I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

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

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.