Gerald Ford actually said...

We are trying to come out--and we are doing it very successfully--out of the recession that we had that bottomed out last March.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Arrival at Marion, Illinois.

03/05/1976

More Gerald Ford Quotes

I believe that the American people in all 50 States want straight talk.

Give me your mandate, and we will reduce the growth of government in the next 4 years.

We can disagree in America without being disagreeable.

Not a single young American is fighting or dying on any foreign soil tonight, and we will keep it that way.