Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I don't want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses."

"I don't know of any special Christmas pardons that are likely to come along."

"I am issuing pardons all the time, so that so far as pardons are concerned every day is Christmas over here."

"I would do what I could to cooperate with him and see that the money that was appropriated by the United States Government was put into places where it could be best expended."