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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.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
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Denison
Texas
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James Allen Hightower
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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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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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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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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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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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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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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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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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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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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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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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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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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