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Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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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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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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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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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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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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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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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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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
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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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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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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 was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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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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