Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"It would seem to me to be the part of wisdom when you are dealing with humans to meet with them and see what you can get done; just to butt your head up against a stone wall is no good."

"Now, I quoted this: the number of times that on specific divisions, where the leaders of the two parties in the Congress divided, how often these particular chairmen voted with the administration prog..."

"Government has tried to work with people, rather than to try to dominate them—rather than to boss them."

"There are worlds of useful work that this Nation has to do."