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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
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
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James Allen Hightower
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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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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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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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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If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
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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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Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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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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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
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