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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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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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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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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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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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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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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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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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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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