Gerald Ford actually said...

We must strike a balance between our desire for environmental protection and our need to increase domestic coal production.

Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate Transmitting Proposed Surface Mining Legislation.

02/05/1975

More Gerald Ford Quotes

I urge them to continue their good work.

When I took office in 1974, I found many of our regulatory laws outdated and unintelligible.

I SUBMIT herewith to the Congress the Puerto Rico Statehood Act of 1977.

Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.