Gerald Ford actually said...

I am willing to say no, not only by exercising the Presidential veto but by calling for positive, imaginative alternatives to government by Washington decree.

Context

Remarks in Yonkers, New York, Upon Signing the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1976

10/12/1976

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