Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I can't give an offhand opinion of it that is of any value."

"I haven't any mature judgment about that."

"I am very glad to be able to report that that is apparently the case."

"So far as any information has come to me it seems to bear out the supposition that I made either at the last or the next to the last [press] conference that Mr. Clementel hadn't made any definite stat..."