The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. – Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But Ive no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. – Jon Bon Jovi