Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I should like very much to have a measure for helping the farmer in accordance with my various messages to the Congress."

"It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before."

"It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewhat lost sight of."

"This undertakes to have the United States go in and assume the entire burden."