Gerald R. Ford Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

  Gerald R. Ford

  House, Majority, Moments

  Remarks in House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970

• I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Communication, House

  Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

• The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Order, House, Honor

• It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Real, Heart, Hands

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

• I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Mistake, Men, Names

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

• An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Two, Office, House

  Remarks in House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970

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