speak softly and carry a big stick

Speak softly and carry a big stick, the saying goes.

He talked of speaking softly and carrying a big stick.

"It is a force that we are designing to speak softly and carry a big stick."

He is the classic man who speaks softly and carries a big stick.

The show's mantra could be, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

If "speak softly and carry a big stick" works, think of the impact one can make with a big bottle.

“We’re not trying to hide from anybody but there’s nothing wrong with speaking softly and carrying a big stick,” Allen said.

He said it would be better right now to heed Teddy Roosevelt’s advice to speak softly and carry a big stick.

After all these years, Steve Balboni still speaks softly and carries a big stick.

It sounds like the opposite of "Speak softly and carry a big stick," and in a way, it is.

Teddy Roosevelt proffered similar advice: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Teddy Roosevelt famously defined American diplomacy as "speak softly and carry a big stick".

John Rambo could be a great political leader -- he speaks softly and carries a big stick (or submachine gun).

The only safe rule is to promise little, and faithfully to keep every promise; to "speak softly and carry a big stick."

With my voice failing again, I said, "Teddy Roosevelt once said we should speak softly and carry a big stick."

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I am not saying the same thing Mr McCain said, about walking and speaking softly and carrying a big stick.

Roosevelt adopted and popularized a West African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Until recently, when it came to Iran, Obama followed the Teddy Roosevelt maxim: speak softly and carry a big stick.

Yet, while the central government tries to maintain the appearance of a hands-off approach, it is still a hovering presence, speaking softly and carrying a big stick.

At a speech in 1901, Roosevelt said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far", which was a cornerstone of diplomacy during his presidency.

Troy Polamalu practices a variation of Theodore Roosevelt's adage about speaking softly and carrying a big stick.

When it comes to China, we have gone from "Speak softly and carry a big stick" to "Take the fifth and carry a toothpick."

His first maxim is borrowed from the American President Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Indeed, Ms Simpson invokes Theodore Roosevelt's dictum to "speak softly and carry a big stick."