William Taft actually said...
You may insist that a policy ought to be adopted, and you have insisted, and I do not doubt that you have—indeed I know you have—made that distinguished member of Congress, the head of the Rivers and Harbors Committee, sit up nights to devise a policy which shall be presented to the country.
Context
Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress
12/07/1909