Nick Masopust

“There are basically two kinds of comedians: You have strong attitude comics with no real jokes. And you have the joke comics with no performing skills or attitude. The ones who make it usually tend to be both.”
― Jay Leno, Leading With My Chin

“Another call was to Tip O'Neill, who wondered if his wife, Millie, was included in the invitation to Friday's oath taking. "She is now," said Ford. The Democratic majority leader shared with his Republican friend some comments he intended to make drawing a distinction between their close personal relationship and their "diametrically opposed" political philosophies. "That's fine, Tip," Ford responded. He knew he could count on him for advice and assistance. Seizing the opportunity, O'Neill urged Ford not to consider a Democrat for vice president in his pursuit of national unity: "This country doesn't work that way." Ford thanked him for his candor.

"Christ, Jerry[,] isn't this a wonderful country?" chortled Tip O'Neill. Here we can talk like this and you and I can be friends, and eighteen months from now I'll be going around the country kicking your balls in.”
― Richard Norton Smith, An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

“They got food of some sort. Later, neither of them could remember exactly what sort, but they ate it. It was food.”
― Stephen Wright, Processed Cheese

“Americans reeling from the fall of Saigon, coupled with the highest unemployment rate since 1941, might be forgiven for believing they had exchanged their long national nightmare for what columnist George Will branded the Unromantic Presidency, a skin graft that had yet to take. Nine months after the East Room inaugural, Gerald Ford was broadly acknowledged for his personal integrity and political moderation-admirable qualities to be sure, especially in contrast to his recent predecessors, though hardly likely to inspire ardent loyalty. To millions of his countrymen, Ford was a character actor attempting a leading man's part. If he had a base, he rarely played to it. Indeed, his avowed aim of restoring public confidence in government institutions shredded by Vietnam and Watergate was incompatible with partisan zeal. To social conservatives in his own party the president appeared a room-temperature centrist stamped indelibly with the consensus-seeking brand of Capitol Hill. At the other end of the political spectrum, lunch pail Democrats, no less than their McGovernite brethren, glimpsed in Ford's economic policies the shade of Herbert Hoover. ”
― Richard Norton Smith, An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford