Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"So utterly baseless are the stories that apparently they represent in part merely material collected for campaign purposes and in part stories originally concocted with a view of possible blackmail."

"It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this vilifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly and without one shadow of justification seeks to blacken the character..."

"Now, these stories as a matter of fact need no investigation whatever."

"The wickedness of the slanders is only surpassed by their fatuity."