Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"For we know that you are far more knowledgeable than Washington as to the nature of your local needs."

"It is my earnest hope that the Congress will take quick and effective steps to enact the measures I will recommend."

"We know that an informed and alert people is the backbone of the free system in which this Republic was conceived and under which it has so greatly prospered."

"For this administration, I give you that pledge."