"Despite the heroic efforts of both the executive branch and the legislative branch of the Government, it has required eight and one-third years to reduce the debt by $8,500,000,000."
"Economic means the discouragement of unnecessary expenditures."
"This has been brought about, not by bringing in experts from the outside, but by making people already in the service of the various branches of the Government and securing the full benefit of their k..."
"The prosperity, peace, and contentment of the people demand it."
"Federal obligations would simply be a mathematical addition."
"If it is not worth working for, then I do not know anything that is worth working for."
"This is an expensive, but amply justified, program."
"The real purpose is nothing less than the true and scientific progress of humanity."
"I know very well that we do not harbor any intention of attacking anyone else."
"I don't know of anything I can add to what I said there."
"I find in my own case that my privileges of free speech are a good deal curtailed, because I am President."
"I don't think there is any reason for taking seriously any suggestion that the country at the present time is in danger of being attacked."
"But I do not agree with the methods that they sometimes employ."
"There doesn't seem to be much of anything the President can do about that."
"Naturally our Government is pleased with my reception at Havana."
"As I left there it seemed to me that the conference was in a position to do very much excellent work."
"There is nothing I can say about the Pan American Conference that occurs to me, that has not already been said."
"Next to our attachment to the principle of self-government has been our attachment to the policy of peace."
