"I don't know as I can quite say that I have been assured of any Congressional action on agricultural legislation at this session."
"If there is an exigency, I am certain that the Congress will be able to pass legislation at this session."
"I don't think I can make any comment relative to the proposals of the French and German Governments for a security pact [the Locarno Agreements] for the guarantee of European peace."
"It seems to me that it is almost entirely a European political subject in which we can't take any very helpful part."
"I don't know any way that America could cooperate in that."
"I haven't any specific plan for the reduction of personnel in the clerical forces of the District of Columbia."
"It is with a good deal of difficulty that they are discharged."
"NO, that is for every department to work out itself."
"NO. AS I say, it is a general suggestion of what has to be met and an effort that the heads of the departments have to be constantly engaged in, otherwise the departments will be loaded up with a grea..."
"Well, I want constant effort in that direction, a constant checking up by the department to see whether they have any more employees than is necessary to carry on the work of the department."
"The relationship between governments and the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance."
"It has always been realized, sometimes instinctively, oftentimes expressly, that truth and freedom are inseparable."