Herbert Hoover actually said...

"Ours is a government by opinion and the press is the most important part of that process."

"It appears to expect me to perform two separate duties, which occasionally in some degree seem to conflict."

"If the President will allow himself to be quoted as saying that there are 49,200,000 cows in the United States, that appears to be exciting news."

"I sometimes wonder how our country can earn its living so arduously and successfully and at the same time do all the reading that it seems to do."