Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: "Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing."
Discurso na University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (3 de novembro de 1966); publicado em Gerald R. Ford,Selected Speeches (Discursos selecionados) (1973) editado por Michael V. Doyle
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Gerald Ford Frases famosas
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.
Discurso em Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 de dezembro de 1971); publicado em Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (Falas selecionadas) (1973) editado por Michael V. Doyle
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.
Observação sobre o Comitê Reeleição do Presidente (Committee to Re-elect the President), como citado em The New York Times (31 de março de 1974)
Discurso na 75a Convenção Anual de Veteranos de Guerras Estrangeiras (75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars), Chicago, Illinois (19 de agosto de 1974)
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
Declaração sobre os americanos que evitaram o projeto durante a Guerra do Vietnã, a Veteranos de Guerras Estrangeiras, Chicago, Illinois (19 de agosto de 1974)
Gerald Ford: Frases em inglês
Interview in The Readers Digest (October 1976)
1970s
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976), Remarks
Variante: We now know what we should have known then--not only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese-Americans were and are loyal Americans. On the battlefield and at home, Japanese-Americans -- names like Hamada, Mitsumori, Marimoto, Noguchi, Yamasaki, Kido, Munemori and Miyamura -- have been and continue to be written in our history for the sacrifices and the contributions they have made to the well-being and security of this, our common Nation.
“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.”
As quoted in Time and Chance (1994) by James Cannon, p. 411.
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976), Remarks
Remarks at the National Press Club (29 October 1975)
1970s
“America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.”
On pardoning Nixon, in A Time to Heal (1979)
1970s
A statement made in a video interview from here (1995) http://www.veoh.com/collection/davebelskistalk/watch/v159267997BpS5JDR
1990s
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976)
Interview in TIME magazine (2 February 1976)
1970s
As quoted in The New York Post (13 August 1974)
1970s
On the Nixon tapes, in a speech to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as quoted in The New York Times (4 May 1974)
1970s
Humor and the Presidency (1987).
1980s
1970s, First Vice-Presidential address (1973)
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976), Remarks
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976)
Speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, West Palm Beach, Florida (26 January 1974); entered into the Congressional Record vol. 120, p. 2044.
1970s
Statement about Americans who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
1970s
Letter to the Archbishop of Cincinnati (10 September 1976) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=6320
1970s
Fonte: 1970s, Address to Congress (12 August 1974)
Address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay, Grand Rapids, Michigan (7 September 1968); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
1960s
During hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, on his nomination to be Vice-President (15 November 1973)
1970s
Address at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 December 1971); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
1970s
Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913 and http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Impeachment_Role.htm.
1970s
Remarks at Naturalization Ceremonies at Monticello, Virginia https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/760649.htm (5 July 1976)
1970s
