[Lurking Libertarian]

I'll see you one and raise you one:

Who said: "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar"?

[BibChr]

Ooh, oh, ohhhh... without using Google or the like... ow. Um. Oh golly, I'll just put my neck out:

Mark Twain?

< GOOGLE >

Well, I'm gratified to see Twain credited with it here, but this site says it was Vice President Thomas R. Marshall under Woodrow Wilson in 1917.

Dan

[T'wit]

I used to live in a small Hoosier town where Marshall had his home -- big red brick affair on N. Harrison street (guess who Indiana's only president was). The house is still there. It now houses the county United Fund.