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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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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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