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

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.

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.

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

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.