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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 282
AUTHOR: Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913–)
QUOTATION: It is good to be back in the People’s 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 branch—head, heart, and hand.
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. 6.
SUBJECTS: Congress—House of Representatives