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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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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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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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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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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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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 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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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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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America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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