The immigration quotas proclaimed above are designed solely for the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the said Immigration Act of 1924 and are not to be regarded as having any significance extraneous to such purpose.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quotas of the nationalities…

Done at the City of Washington this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.

We are glad to have you in the country, and hope that you will get some satisfaction out of your visit.

There are a great many wonderful newspapers in this country, and I hope that you can get some good out of them; and I am sure you will.

When you go back to Germany, I hope you will be able to say that you have been cordially treated in this country, and that we at least showed that we were glad to have you pay us a visit.

It is little short of fantastic that the Congress of the United States should--as it now does--devote a substantial percentage of its time to acting as a city council for the District of Columbia.

I am very much in favor of all of these objectives.

I am strongly in favor of better organization and greater efficiency throughout the Executive branch.

I am sure that the great majority of the people of Washington want home rule.

There is nothing partisan about this proposal.

The people of the District of Columbia should not be placed in a different status from that of the people of all other American cities and almost all democratic capitals of the world in so far as local self-government is concerned.

I have been reading all the stories I saw in the papers, but I don't believe them.

Just be patient until all the rumors are floored, then you will have the answer to that question.

I shall continue to have those conferences whenever I feel like it, and they will continue to be off the record.

I give you all the information.

My candidate wouldn't be considered.

Oh yes, I have a pile of recommendations.