Gerald Ford actually said...

"No single act a President can take sets forth our national goals and our national priorities so completely and so clearly as the annual Budget Message to the Congress."

"I think it is encouraging to see that labor, business, and the general public respond so well to the problems of this recession and are joining in the effort to solve them."

"I firmly reject that view. They are controllable if the Congress and the President join together to hold down excessive spending."

"The facts of life are, in the United States, that our domestic oil production is declining, and it will continue to decline."