“I can be President of the United States, or I can control Al…”

“I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Title: Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
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Context

Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and TIME magazine (3 March 1980)

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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

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