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Jim Hightower

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
— Jim Hightower dead
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
— Jim Hightower men
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
— Jim Hightower courage
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.
— Jim Hightower art
Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclosure program. Oh, good. They're going to tell us they're stealing from us. But at least we're going to know.
— Jim Hightower good
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
— Jim Hightower water
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
— Jim Hightower war
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
— Jim Hightower art
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
— Jim Hightower day
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
— Jim Hightower men
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
— Jim Hightower dead
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
— Jim Hightower right
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
— Jim Hightower you
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
— Jim Hightower you
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
— Jim Hightower
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
— Jim Hightower time
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
— Jim Hightower race
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
— Jim Hightower men
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
— Jim Hightower work
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.
— Jim Hightower art
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.
— Jim Hightower people
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.
— Jim Hightower power
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.
— Jim Hightower success
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
— Jim Hightower health
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
— Jim Hightower age
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.
— Jim Hightower time
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
— Jim Hightower mother
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
— Jim Hightower dead
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
— Jim Hightower people
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
— Jim Hightower man
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
— Jim Hightower politics

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