Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her material well being."

"In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application."

"I ask this aid for her, because she is weak, because she needs it, because we have already aided her."

"It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that steady continuity of policy which it is essential for our nation ..."