Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I don't know about that. I don't want to make any comment about that."

"It had seemed to me that the Department of the Interior, which is the department that has always had charge of our territorial and disconnected possessions like Alaska might be the logical place to pu..."

"I have all the time advised the Philippine people to show their capacity for self-government by a careful administration of the fundamental law of the Islands, which is the Jones Law, the Organic Law ..."

"I never heard of any such thing and I think it is entirely improbable that such is the case."