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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
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Denison
Texas
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James Allen Hightower
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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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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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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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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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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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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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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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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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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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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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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
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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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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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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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