[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. |
[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. |
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history. |
I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973) |
I'll know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators. |
If Lincoln was alive today, he'd roll over in his grave. |
If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have. |
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. |
In those times, I needed someone with creativity, vision, and courage. And I found those qualities -- and much more -- in Don Rumsfeld. |
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) |
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. |
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. |
We skiers know that falling over isn't important; it's getting up again. |