Gerald Ford actually said...

"We have a great obligation to them because we want America not only a leader in the world but a country that gives to all of our citizens opportunity and blessings that none of us have had in the past..."

"I often used to sit back in the rear seats of the House of Representatives and ask myself, 'Didn't they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to..."

"Virginia, because of its elections in a year prior to a national convention, sort of tells the rest of the Nation the direction in which we ought to go as a country."

"This program has been a resounding success."