Herbert Hoover actually said...

"There is no doubt that the more vigorous enforcement of the Federal laws laterally have had something to do with this increase in prisoners."

"I do not think that we can abandon that program, and therefore I can't allow the work of the Commission to cease."

"Nothing to my mind indicates more clearly the fact that crime is growing in general than the situation which we have in the prisons, both Federal and State, at the present moment."

"I have no doubt that there are private citizens sufficiently anxious for the Nation to know the whole truth as to what constructive remedies may be suggested by so eminent a body of men and women as t..."