"I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to the Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet. But I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also."
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Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the University of California (March 23, 1911); Wm. Drapper Lewis, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (1919), ch. 14
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