Act Quote by Rick Perlstein

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.

— Charles L. Evans

In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs…

— Kate Clinton

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

— Steny Hoyer

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

— Anonymous

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

— Michael Beschloss

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon…

— Paul Johnson

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

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in…

— Noam Chomsky

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone…

— Sally Quinn

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The…

— Wayne Allard

There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.

— Rick Harrison