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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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Anymore
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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
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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 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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But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
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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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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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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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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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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
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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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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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