Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil."

"Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West."

"When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West."

"I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation."