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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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Journalist
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Denison
Texas
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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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Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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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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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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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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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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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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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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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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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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Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.
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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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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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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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