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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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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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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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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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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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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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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 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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Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.
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Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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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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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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