Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"As a matter of fact, I am now quoting the messages that come to me from all over this land, which are to the general effect that people won’t put me into the election; that seems to be the complaint t..."

"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."

"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."

"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."