William Taft actually said...

"It has made me much more alive to the immense importance of the conservation of our natural resources, especially of the importance of dealing properly with our arid lands."

"But one of the great advantages of your city is that you do not have to stay long to like it well."

"We must, therefore, if we would still retain agricultural control of the world, take some steps to avail ourselves of those great stretches of what seem now to be arid and desert lands, but which, by ..."

"China is waking up."