Herbert Hoover actually said...

"to protect American workingmen from further competition for positions by new alien immigration during the existing conditions of employment"

"They have been extending their markets and have been making some shipments to England of bananas, with success."

"We have reduced expenses by doing away with the Governor at St. Johns."

"The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials upon the island who were not born there."