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Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is citing former President Theodore Roosevelt in a new ad as he seeks to win the Republican nomination for Montana’s new congressional seat — defending the former president and conservationist just as his statue has been removed from pride of place in New York City.
In the ad, Zinke quotes from Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne, Paris in 1910 — often referred to as the “Man in the Arena” speech.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better,” Roosevelt said in the famous address.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT STATUE REMOVED FROM FRONT OF NYC’S MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Zinke said that the former president’s promotion of “Americanism” was relevant to a time when Americans are deeply divided down partisan lines.
“Today, I think today we need another period of Americanism. When the country is so divided, I think we have to rise on the basis of what an American is, both our character and our measures,” he said.
“It’s OK to dare to be great,” he said. “We shouldn’t settle for America being second best. We shouldn’t settle for an economy that is beholden to foreign interests on supply chains, etc.”
Zinke has touted Roosevelt before when he served as…
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