Jim Hightower Quotes

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Courage, Opposites, Flow

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• The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

  Jim Hightower

  Jobs, Issues, Wages

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• Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

  Jim Hightower

  Party, People, Wish

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• Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Flow, Conformity, Cowardice

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.114, Penguin

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• The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Hotel Lobby, Corporations

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast, p. 141, 2002.

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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?

  Jim Hightower

  Race, Presidential, Why Not

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• Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

  Jim Hightower

  Inspirational, Crazy, Ideas

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• The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

  Jim Hightower

  Yellow, Political, Lines

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• If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

  Jim Hightower

  Speaks Out, Matter, Speak

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Democracy, Election Time, Events

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Differences, Today, Pigeons

  "Texas farm chief is on the offensive" by Keith Schneider. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

  Jim Hightower

  Self, People, Greek

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• It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

  Jim Hightower

  Wisdom, Roosters, Doe

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• Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

  Jim Hightower

  Fall, Government, People

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• 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

  Speaking Up, Democracy, Principles

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• Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

  Jim Hightower

  Dog, Legs, Building

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.127, Penguin

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• Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

  Jim Hightower

  Political, Politics, Armadillos

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Heart, Unique, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

  Jim Hightower

  Doe

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Management, Increase

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• 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

  Mother, Kings, People

  "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• You have to learn to read between the lies.

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  Lying

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Media, Our Society

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Texas, America, Attention

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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.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Party, Government

  "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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