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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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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 opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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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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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.
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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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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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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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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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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
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