Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Every one of you who has seen or studied about a modern warship knows that it is a singularly delicate and complicated as well as a singularly formidable bit of mechanism."

"These problems are very difficult."

"He has got in the first place to be honest and decent."

"Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic."