Political Quotes

On the recordJune 5, 1976
Americans have learned that we cannot police every remote corner of the Earth nor fill every empty bowl.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Cleveland at the National Awards Dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews

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