Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We must drive the special interests out of politics.

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledg...

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring...

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.