George H.W. Bush: “It's easy when the times are tough. And yes, we've got a tough economy. We happen to have one of the best in the world.…”

“It's easy when the times are tough. And yes, we've got a tough economy. We happen to have one of the best in the world. It's not as good as I want it, but we're in a global slowdown, a global recession. And we've got to change things. But what we don't need to do is go back, what it was like when the Democrats controlled the White House and the Congress, which they've controlled for 38 years. I want to remind you of what it was like. Interest rates, some here are too young to remember, 21.5 percent. We don't want that for the United States. Inflation was 15 percent. The ``misery index'' was going through the ozone hole that Gore talks about all the time. And we cannot go back to the failed policies of the past. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!”