Gerald Ford

Anyone who says that doesn't know what he's talking about.

We just can't dump them wholesale in the laps of local government and say, 'Okay, fellows, you find the tax money to pay for them.'

I think it would be better if it was not made a campaign issue.

We are already on the right track.

I thank you very much for just the fact that you are here.

I am here to listen to your questions about my budget for fiscal year 1977 and answer them as completely and as totally as I possibly can.

I believe that the best way for us to solve the unemployment problem is to give an incentive to the private sector.

It is a great privilege and pleasure to see all of you here and have you participate, as I am, in the swearing in of Mitchell Kobelinski to be the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.

The small business sector of our economy is vital to private job creation.

I am committed to the continued health and vigor of small businesses.

I consider it essential to reduce the burden of government-imposed regulation and paperwork.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I look forward to working with Mitch in furthering the interests and the needs and the requirements of the small business community.

The small business sector of our economy is vital to job creation, competition, and technological innovation.

The freedom to create and operate one's own business does not exist in many parts of the world.

It is my confident hope and belief that this system will be found, after sufficient trials, to be better adapted everywhere than any other to the great interest of human society; namely, the preservation of peace, order and national…

I supported the creation of SBA in 1953 and strongly support it today.

I urge the Senate to act favorably on this Convention at an early date and to give its advice and consent to ratification.

Foreign policy and defense policy are both part of a single national policy.

The fact is the United States of America is today the world's best and perhaps its only hope of peace with freedom.

We will win this struggle, and we are winning it, by the patient and painstaking pursuit of our own national interest through continuing my present policy of peace through strength.

Under my administration, the United States is at peace.

I am pleased to transmit this report on Little Beaver Creek, Ohio.

I believe--and believe very strongly--that $112,700 million requested in my fiscal year 1977 defense budget represents the best way to deter war and to keep our country secure.

I am pleased that the Congress, in establishing this program, has made provision for the State administration of Wild and Scenic River components.