Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Money spent on Federal aid highways takes very few people directly off the relief rolls."

"The Government of the Dominican Republic will not give the slightest ground for a disturbance of the peace of America."

"The Congress has a perfect right constitutionally to exceed the budget, but, if the budget is exceeded, obviously the Congress must accept full responsibility."

"I extend to Your Excellency my most sincere wishes that the controversy which regrettably exists between two sister republics may obtain a rapid, just, and pacific solution."