"A single executive head would increase efficiency, determine responsibility, and eliminate delays and uncertainties inevitable under the present system."
"The supervision of these agencies is at present limited to the police."
"I especially urge that the proposed department of housing and labor be established."
"Poverty, disease, and crime are largely due to defects of social conditions and surroundings."
"The inventor of the story about Mr. Charles P. Taft, for instance, evidently supposed that at some period of the Panama purchase Mr. W. H. Taft was Secretary of War, whereas in reality Mr. W. H. Taft ..."
"It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this vilifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly and without one shadow of justification seeks to blacken the character..."
"All our transactions were carried on openly, and were published in detail."
"As a matter of fact, there is nothing whatever, in which this Government is interested, to investigate about this transaction."
"The wickedness of the slanders is only surpassed by their fatuity."
"They consist simply of a string of infamous libels."
"While the criminal offense of which Mr. Pulitzer has been guilty is in form a libel upon individuals, the great injury done is in blackening the good name of the American people."