Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
264
AUTHOR:
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913– )
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
President GERALD R. FORD, address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974, pp. 6–7.
