Gerald Ford

America is a great country and you will make it even greater.

The United States of America is unsurpassed in military capability, and we are going to keep it that way.

I have urged Secretary of Agriculture Butz to devote the best and most comprehensive efforts of his department to ensure that the grain of American farmers sold abroad is properly certificated.

We are prepared today, we will stay prepared.

Not one American serviceman is fighting in any part of the world today.

Where there is conflict, let us try conciliation.

I think it is premature to make any decision.

We vetoed 47 of them and 39 of them have been sustained.

The evidence strongly suggests that we are on the right course.

You have outstanding people who believe right, do things right, and get things done.

I think competition is good.

We have taken employment up 2,600,000 more jobs.

I have vigorously opposed any efforts by Congress or economists or anybody else to put a price ceiling on agricultural commodities.

Today, on this solemn occasion, I repeat that pledge, to work for a world where the foundation of peace is mutual self-interest instead of mutual terror.

I will never promise more than I can deliver, and we will deliver everything that I promise.

It's great to be back in Amarillo.

We must never forget that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.

If you think you can do something, and if you work at it, you can accomplish it.

I don’t think it is a mere coincidence that these 3 very successful years have been years when the Government left you alone and let you produce without a lot of bureaucratic interference from the Nation’s Capital.

I certainly don't object if the Congress wants to do as they have done in this case.

I am opposed to that program, period.

We will do our best as President.

I had no longer been President than 30 days or more when we were capitulated into the worst economic recession that this country has had in 40 years.

We have a crop insurance program, we have a disaster program to help the unfortunate farmer who has lost a crop because of the weather or other unforeseen difficulties.

This ceremony should make us realize how precious freedom is and how dearly Americans have paid for it from the first battles for independence down to the very present.