Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"I think the only thing I could say on the particular Detroit problem must be said completely off the record."

"We are living together in turning out munitions—and especially to avoid creating trouble."

"And I think that if the farmer's wife all the way through the country had it explained to her, about the cost of living to her, I think the farmer's wife would appreciate it, and understand it, and go..."

"Of course, the problem of the 'cost of living'—which as you know I prefer as a term to the word 'inflation'—it's a very, very serious matter before the country."