Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
74
AUTHOR:
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913– )
QUOTATION:
I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage. I want progress, and I want problemsolving which requires my best efforts and also your best efforts. I have no need to learn how Congress speaks for the people. As President, I intend to listen. But I also intend to listen to the people themselves—all the people—as I promised last Friday. I want to be sure that we are all tuned in to the real voice of America.
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, p. 7.
