Behind Closed Doors Quotes

“I took direct aim at Carter’s economic record with the insert of a small gem into Reagan’s Langhorne, Pennsylvania, remarks on October 7: “Look around you—at the price of food, the price of gasoline, the interest rates you have to pay to buy a house, the amount of taxes taken out of your paycheck. Look around, then ask yourself: are you really better off than you were in 1976?” That meme resonated in Langhorne and was initially overlooked in the uproar over Carter’s meanness attacks. Reagan repeated it in subsequent speeches, and with even greater effect three weeks later when he debated Carter. When I unleashed that line at the Oxford Mall in Langhorne, PA, I”
― Ken Khachigian, Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon