"I especially urge that the proposed department of housing and labor be established."
"A single executive head would increase efficiency, determine responsibility, and eliminate delays and uncertainties inevitable under the present system."
"They consist simply of a string of infamous libels."
"It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this vilifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly and without one shadow of justification seeks to blacken the character..."
"So utterly baseless are the stories that apparently they represent in part merely material collected for campaign purposes and in part stories originally concocted with a view of possible blackmail."
"All our transactions were carried on openly, and were published in detail."
"The inventor of the story about Mr. Charles P. Taft, for instance, evidently supposed that at some period of the Panama purchase Mr. W. H. Taft was Secretary of War, whereas in reality Mr. W. H. Taft ..."
"I directed or approved every action, and am responsible for all that was done in carrying out the will of the Congress; and the provisions of the law, enacted by Congress after exhaustive examination ..."
"While the criminal offense of which Mr. Pulitzer has been guilty is in form a libel upon individuals, the great injury done is in blackening the good name of the American people."
"These stories were scurrilous and libelous in character and false in every essential particular."
"As a matter of fact, there is nothing whatever, in which this Government is interested, to investigate about this transaction."
"The wickedness of the slanders is only surpassed by their fatuity."