Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I hope they may pass some reasonable farm legislation, but I am afraid that the present bill will not meet what I held to be the requirements."

"I don't think the Senate understood it, what its implications were, or what is behind it."

"I don't know of any proposal that has been made, certainly since I have been President, and I doubt if any was ever made, of such an extortionate nature as that provided for in the bill passed by the ..."

"I don't think that in passing a bill of this kind the opportunity should be seized on to put the Government in a position where it would have to endow them with very large damages."