Jim Hightower Quotes

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.

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

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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.

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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

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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.

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