- I know that you have not elected me as President with your votes, but I ask that you confirm me with your prayers.
- A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from everything you have.
- I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
- I don't think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly, I don't think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer. Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction. And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do. (2005)
- [to the House Judiciary Committee on his pardoning of former President Richard Nixon] The purpose was to change our national focus. I wanted to do all I could to shift our attentions from the pursuit of a fallen president to the pursuit of the urgent needs of a rising nation..to punish a former President who already is condemned to suffer long and deeply in the shame and disgrace brought upon the office he held. Surely we are not a revengeful people.
- The acceptance of a pardon, according to the legal authorities - and we have checked them out very carefully - does indicate that by the acceptance, the person who has accepted it does, in effect, admit guilt.
- I can still remember the first time I ever heard Hubert Humphrey speak. He was in the second hour of a five-minute talk.
- [assuming the office of President, 1974] The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and every president under the Constitution. But I assume the presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
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