Gerald R Ford Video

I let the American people down.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

"Rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this position by now obviously is desirous of losing money." - Novermber 2004 in a speech in Frankfurt