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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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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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If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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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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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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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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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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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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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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