Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"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."

"You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means."

"We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position."