`` please , my wife has polio ... '' `` the lord sayeth , to those i have given much ... '' `` tryin ' to influence an election ... '' `` internal combustion is old hat compared to this opportunity ... '' `` if you could just fix my piano ... '' white fortified himself in his mansion and took out a full-page ad in the paper the next day announcing that his old policy of distributing funds solely through the new york foundation was still intact .