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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

— Robert Dallek

As a general rule, midterm elections - in both their first terms and their second terms - aren't kind to incumbent presidents, even popular…

— Steve Kornacki

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did…

— Juan Williams

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

— Harry S Truman

“Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but there's no…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

— Armando Iannucci

You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where…

— Kellyanne Conway

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

— Mitt Romney

That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at…

— Mitt Romney

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous…

— Rick Perlstein

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon…

— Dick Morris

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

— Brent Scowcroft