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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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James Allen Hightower
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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 corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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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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