Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.