Afghanistan Quote by Walter Russell Mead

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

— Barack Obama

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for…

— Elliott Abrams

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they…

— Alexander Haig

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of…

— Ahmed Rashid

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily…

— Barack Obama

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and…

— Ed Rollins

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

— Newt Gingrich

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I…

— Michele Bachmann

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

— Joseph Heller

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was…

— Ann Coulter

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

— Kathleen Troia McFarland