Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'"

"The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion."

"I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the slightest degree connected with his death."

"There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service."