Yes, Harold Ford, Junior. We did speak, We did embrace New Leadership, not the failed leadership of a decade in Washington, D.C.. We selected someone from Tennessee not D.C. We are proud of November 7, 2006 election results. We are proud that you are off the television screens. We are proud that you can now become a private citizen.

Jake Ford, the second of the three sons to be born to Harold and Dorothy Ford went on to assert:

"I'm the one who inherited my father’s political sense, my brother Isaac is the one who got the business sense, and all Harold got was the name."