Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life…

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them… while I don’t mean to say anything about my birthplace, whether it was in Canada or elsewhere, still, if I should get to going about the secrets …

What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior …

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.