Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"I have frequently talked about minimum wages to various people, but no recommendation has ever reached me of that kind."

"In this time, when all the world is divided by virtue of a struggle between those who believe in the essential dignity of man as a creature created in the image of his God, and those who contend that ..."

"Well, the timing was such I could not possibly accept it now."

"I don't see why I have to take an extremist view on this thing."