Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters."

"You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs."

"This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob."

"We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man."