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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
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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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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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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