Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1519 |
| AUTHOR: | Kansas farmer |
| QUOTATION: | [Hoover was the greatest engineer in the world since] he had drained, ditched, and damned the United States in three years. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to a Kansas farmer.—Roy Victor Peel, The 1932 Campaign, p. 56 (1935, reprinted 1973). |
| SUBJECTS: | Presidency |