Gerald Ford

Personally, I am intrigued by the differences between then and now, as well as by the similarities.

I can say without any reservation or qualification that it is a particular pleasure to come to these dinners.

What we don't need is a timewasting test of strength between the Congress and the President.

What we need next is a comprehensive energy program to end our dependence on foreign oil producers.

I call upon appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day in testimony of our loyalty to this Nation.

The United States has become the greatest Nation in history because of the loyalty of our people to our Constitution, to our laws, and to those ideals which they represent.

The important thing is that the Congress is finally moving on our urgent national energy problem.

I said this country needed an immediate Federal income tax cut to reverse the current recession and create more jobs.

I do call upon the people of the United States...to observe Thursday, May 1, 1975, as Loyalty Day, with appropriate ceremonies.

It is now nearly two hundred years since America's Independence was sought and won.

The U.S. will continue to seek practical steps to avert this danger.

We must maintain an adequate defense against potential great-power adversaries.

The Vladivostok accord will enable our two countries to establish significant limits on the strategic arms race.

The genius of the American people may be said to lie in their ability to search for and find practical solutions, even to the most difficult of problems.

We shall make every effort to achieve such an outcome.

Arms control offers a potential solution to many of the problems we currently face.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution of the United States, Section 2 of Executive Order No. 11803 of September 16, 1974, is hereby amended as follows: By…

The most important problem is for immediate action, the quickest possible action, to stimulate the economy and to get the country moving so we have jobs and we have a better economic environment.

The Republican Party that I believe in is a party that also, in addition to maintaining the peace, is a party that believes in the free enterprise system and an economy that is strong and that will grow and get stronger.

1976 is going to be a different year.

It can possibly be meshed with ours, and we certainly will work to achieve some accommodation.

I say to you that our party can and will challenge those who are in the Democratic Party who do not agree with what we are trying to do.

I can assure you, speaking for myself and, I am sure, for my associates, that we are willing to sit down and find an answer with the Democratic leaders of the House as well as the Senate.

I intend to be a candidate for a political party that is devoted to the basic principles that have built this country from a small nation of some 3 million to a strong, vigorous, effective nation of over 213 million people.

It is a pretty dismal performance.