A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
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.
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
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.
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.
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
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.
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
