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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
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Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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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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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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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
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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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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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