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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
Texas
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James Allen Hightower
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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.
Jim Hightower
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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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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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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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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Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
Jim Hightower
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
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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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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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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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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 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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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
Jim Hightower
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
Jim Hightower
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.
Jim Hightower
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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
