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You have to learn to read between the lies.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Journalist
Politician
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Denison
Texas
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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 corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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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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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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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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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 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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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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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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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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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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If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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