I'll know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)

[That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens , his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.] He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.