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In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
Gerald R. Ford
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Gerald R. Ford
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 26
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The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?
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Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
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The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
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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.
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Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.
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It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.
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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
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