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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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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I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.
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I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
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The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
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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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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
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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 don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
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I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
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Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.
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