Gerald Ford actually said...

I believe this program gave all Americans a better appreciation of how powerful the forces of inflation are in our economy.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Cost of Living Council's Final Quarterly Report on the Economic Stabilization...

09/30/1974

More Gerald Ford Quotes

The Congress has badly misjudged the real public interest in enacting this bill.

I am calling on the Congress to turn its full and undivided attention to this unfinished agenda of legislative business.

There is an opportunity to write a legislative record of which we can all be proud.

If it does insist on going ahead with this program, there will be no real winners but there will be real losers: the American people.