Grover Cleveland trivia & quote

In the February 6 edition of WORLD magazine, there was a Q & A interview with businessman and historian Garland Tucker. Here is one question and answer from that article:

You write about Grover Cleveland. A lot of homeschoolers who memorized the list of U.S presidents remember that he messed them up by being both the 22nd and 24th.

He was the last conservative Democrat. He wanted a substantial reduction of the federal government and still holds the record for the number of vetoes by any president - over 500. He took on his own party, the press, the Republicans, whatever, when he thought he was right. If somebody would come to him and say, "You need to move toward the center," he'd beat his fist on the table and say, "What good is it to be elected if you don't stand for anything?"

That is an amazing quote from Cleveland. "What good is it to be elected if you don't stand for anything?" That is not a view most elected officials - president or otherwise - take.