Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"There is no responsible official in this department that hasn’t had orders that, in recruiting for the civil service, a man’s party affiliation will make no slightest difference and give him none."

"Of course, in certain activities it is obvious that secrecy must be maintained, let us say, in the departments that are working out the forecasts of crops for next year, and so on."

"If ever I attempt to make foreign policy, basic foreign policy, a partisan issue, I wish one of you people would remind me very forcefully."

"Indeed I have. It is nothing in the world but an effort to get the best kind of people applying for governmental service that you can get, to get the White House out of the channel, so far as possible..."