Gerald Ford actually said...

I have placed before the Congress a comprehensive set of legislative proposals designed to help us achieve our goal of energy independence.

Remarks Upon Signing a Special Message to the Congress Urging Enactment of Proposed Energy Legislation.

02/25/1976

More Gerald Ford Quotes

I will secure that peace through strength and through perseverance and leave that legacy of peace for our children and for their children.

Your generation bears a very special task--the preservation of individualism-but you do not bear that task alone.

I have done a good job under the toughest kinds of circumstances, and I would appreciate your wholehearted support.

We didn't panic. We didn't lose our cool.