Gerald Ford said "I say to my friend, I take this as if they were doing it to me as an individual and saying that you are going to be penalized--I am going to be penalized if your program doesn't work. And some companies, a brand only has about 1 percent of youth. They don't like it, and they don't use it. But if you reduce it down, if it is 1 percent, which one brand is, then you have to reduce that to six-tenths of 1 percent. That becomes very difficult when it is all adults. I agree with what you are trying to do. I hope somehow or another we can make it fair rather than unfair." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 21, 1998

I say to my friend, I take this as if they were doing it to me as an individual and saying that you are going to be penalized--I am going to be penalized if your program doesn't work. And some companies, a brand only has about 1 percent of youth. They don't like it, and they don't use it. But if you reduce it down, if it is 1 percent, which one brand is, then you have to reduce that to six-tenths of 1 percent. That becomes very difficult when it is all adults. I agree with what you are trying to do. I hope somehow or another we can make it fair rather than unfair.

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Gerald Ford

Republican · Michigan

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a program's penalties on companies during a floor debate.

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