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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?
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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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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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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.
Jim Hightower
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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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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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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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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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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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
Jim Hightower
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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
Jim Hightower
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
Jim Hightower
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Jim Hightower
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
Jim Hightower