Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I have stated all this in three different messages."

"I have appointed Mr. Norman Davis, who was formerly the Under Secretary of State, as a member of the delegation to the Disarmament Conference."

"The most constructive direction for economy in Federal expenditure beyond a rigid reduction of appropriations and the resolute opposition to new appropriations lies in the consolidation of Government ..."

"In my message to Congress I suggested that the Engineers continue to administer Rivers and Harbors as in the past."