Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"My own feeling, ladies and gentlemen, is that it is a pity that this is a campaign year."

"I want you to go home determined that within the whole circle of your influence the President, not as a partisan but as the representative of the national honour, shall be backed up by the whole force..."

"I am sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we should be obliged to discuss these things, for fear they might run over into the campaign and seem to constitute a part of it."

"We want American character to display itself in what I may perhaps be allowed to call spiritual efficiency."