Woodrow Wilson actually said...

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

"We want to defend the life of this Nation against any sort of interference."

"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."