Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"It is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers."

"I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her."

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

"I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence."