William Taft actually said...

"When the People of the United States elected me President, they placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office..."

"I should be glad to regard what has happened only as a personal reflection, so that I could pass it over and take no official cognizance of it."

"If a railroad company, by mere allegation in its bill of complaint, supported by ex parte affidavits, can overturn the result of days of patient investigation, no very satisfactory result can be expec..."

"By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of the Government."