Gerald Ford actually said...

I think the small family farmer is better off today than he has been in the past.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation

03/14/1976

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The United States will have lost its negotiating flexibility and influence.

We in America want growth, not stagnation.

We in America want price stability, not inflation.

We want solutions which serve very broad interests, rather than narrow, self-serving ones.