Gerald R. Ford Quotes
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
Ford, Gerald R. "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975, Book I. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977, p. 45.
This quotation is particularly ironic in that President George W. Bush’s staff well recognized and appreciated the importance of the American President’s world role. However, that President and his administration became the most world despised American President since America became a world power late in the 19th century.
At the time Walker made this statement George W. Bush was in the 6th year of his troubled presidency. He was not a strong leader and was generally believed by all but his most loyal supporters to have not told the truth to the American people and many people thought that he and his administration had deliberately lied about many things – especially the Iraq war causes belli. Bush claimed that he had been misled by bad intelligence and that his failure to tell the truth was inadvertent.
Romney was then running for the Republican Presidential nomination, and was taking a shot at President Obama.
Compare this quotation with {632907}. Most members of Congress had limited management experience and the only solution to an organizational problem was to fire people. The referenced quotation has people fired to trigger reform and change; in this quotation, it is for the purpose of inspiring public trust. Ironically, there is no evidence in the management literature that suggests that firing for either of these reasons will have the desired objective.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician and attorney who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party, Ford previously served as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. To date, Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College.
