Jim Hightower quotes

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. (Jim Hightower)
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Jim Hightower
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
Jim Hightower
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
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
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
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Jim Hightower
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.
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. (Jim Hightower)
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
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
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
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
Jim Hightower
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
Jim Hightower
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
Jim Hightower
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Jim Hightower
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
Jim Hightower
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. (Jim Hightower)
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.
Jim Hightower
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
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim Hightower
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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