William Taft actually said...

"I don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when he could, and enjoy such a festivity and welcome as this, does not understand a good thing when he sees it."

"It is the first State in which I have been tendered a welcome within the capitol walls of the State, and I take it as an expression on your part of a desire to show that it is the State and the people..."

"I am not inspired to say much to-day, because I feel so much more than I can say."

"Now we are letting them in to see the animals eat."