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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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The original Greek word idiotes referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.
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Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
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The media isn't only asleep it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
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Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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