Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.