Gerald Ford actually said...

"I happen to have great faith in the character, the strength, the vision of all of our fellow Americans."

"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..."

"Let me tell you why."

"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."