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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.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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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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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.
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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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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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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.
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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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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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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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
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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 water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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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 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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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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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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