Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I am not, of course, an expert at all on what is the type of ship that we need most, but I am advised by the Navy that it is in the matter of cruisers that we are most deficient."

"I have understood that there was something of a propaganda under way against any Navy building program."

"No, I have given you the wrong number."

"I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it would be done in a business way."