Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We must drive the special interests out of politics.

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...

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plun...

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