"I think the country can rest fairly easy under the knowledge that the Bureau of Operations of the Navy and the General Staff of the Army are composed of very competent men."
"I think I have had occasion before to comment on the fact that we never get the Army and Navy appropriation bills through without stories of that kind."
"My budget estimates for the present year are creeping up towards $100,000,000 more for national defense for the War Department and the Navy Department than they were for the appropriations two or thre..."
"I think it is safe to say that both the Army and the Navy are in better shape than they ever were before in time of peace."
"I am issuing pardons all the time, so that so far as pardons are concerned every day is Christmas over here."
"I don't recall that I ever made any suggestion that after I finished my term of office I was going to engage in the occupation of whittling."
"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."
"I don't know of any special Christmas pardons that are likely to come along."
"I am having sent to me quite a number of jackknives."
"I don't want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses."
"all reports of that kind are without any foundation and will be unless they are officially announced by me"
"while I remain in the office of President I do not expect to make any arrangement whatever for any future kind of employment"