Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1392
AUTHOR:
Joseph Weldon Bailey (1863–1929)
QUOTATION:
I would he were better, I would he were worse.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to Senator JOSEPH WELDON BAILEY. Unverified. Said to have been applied to President Theodore Roosevelt during debate on the Railroad Rate Bill of 1906.
