Harry Truman actually said...

"I wish you would inform yourselves completely on these matters."

"The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State are available to discuss these matters with you, and can give you the details if you want them, because they are not secret, they are a part of the ..."

"I felt it my duty to bring to your attention that the expenditures that are being made for peace are in the hope that we won't have to make a war expenditure, and that they have to be made unless we w..."

"That's all in the world that the foreign policy of the United States amounts to."