Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Related quotes
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
quote by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
quote by Newt Gingrich
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
quote by Art Buchwald
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
quote by Ronald Reagan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Capitalism: A Love Story
William Black, Jimmy Carter, Congressman Elijah Cummings,Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elizabeth Warren
from Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Submitted by anonym
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
quote by Ann Coulter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.
quote by Richard V. Allen
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.
quote by Bobby R. Inman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.
quote by David Steinberg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
quote by Dom DeLuise
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You just have to have a simple faith.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
quote by Michael Reagan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
quote by Jimmy Carter
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
quote by Alexander Haig
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!