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

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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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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Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
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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 I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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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 opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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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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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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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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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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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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