Harry Truman actually said...

"It is a policy that I think is for the welfare of this country."

"As I have said time and again here to the young men who represent you here in the White House, that I didn't care much what was said on the editorial page if I got the facts on the front page!"

"I thought the press had been extremely kind to me, and that the young men who represent you gentlemen here had done a good job of reporting."

"The political matters have to speak for themselves in actions, and they do, I think, most of the time."