"I have a great relationship with the Mexican people."
"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg."
"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today."
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."
"Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us."
"When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say."
"I have a Bible near my bed."
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
"While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos."
"I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang."
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
"Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth."
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
"When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
"I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government."
