"What I mean by that is that a man in private practice might be able to secure that income."
"What I want is a man of character and ability that will take that office and administer it in accordance with the well known standards of administration of the Attorney General's office."
"At today's Cabinet meeting I went over a very short and sketchy way the business situation."
"I haven't any plan about a summer White House."
"My own theory is that if the tax bill had been passed as it was introduced by the administration within six weeks or two months after the coming in of Congress, the country would have seen a large inc..."
"I rather imagine that we will stay here, if that is agreeable to you, a very large part of the summer."
"The fundamental question there is a question of administration, and it is the difficulty of having an elective legislature and a Governor that serves by reason of appointment from here."
"I think the pending proposal is that it should go into effect in 1935, if the Filipino people about that time will vote for that proposal."
"That duty is not all performed at the present time."
"At the present time they are getting on remarkably well, but if some means could be provided by which the Governor could be elected by the people of Porto Rico, it would eliminate that difficulty."
"I have found that there exist in Honduras such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States as contemplated by th..."
"I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States, charged with the execution of the laws thereof, the utmost diligence in preventing violations of the said Joint Resolution and this my Procla..."
"I do hereby warn them that all violations of such provisions will be rigorously prosecuted"
"I do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States and every person to abstain from every violation of the provisions of the Joint Resolution above set forth, hereby made applicable to Honduras"
"I have to keep my mind open about those things until the proposal comes to me."
"I can't very well announce beforehand that I am going to veto a bill, or that I am going to sign it."
"Nobody knows what the bill may contain when it gets here, so that I have to wait and see."
"It is always rather embarrassing for me to discuss legislation that is pending, about which there is a controversy in the Congress."