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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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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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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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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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