Jim Hightower Quotes
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We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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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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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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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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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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Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.
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Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
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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 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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Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.
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Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
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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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Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
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Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.
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The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know the 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. When you can draw that many people, you've got something going. You don't have to worry if the guys in suits are going to put it on the front page or not.
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Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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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 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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