Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.” — Jim Hightower Conformity Copy Share Image
If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out? — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. — Jim Hightower Issues Copy Share Image
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building. — Jim Hightower Animal Copy Share Image
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity. — Jim Hightower Business Copy Share Image
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's… — Jim Hightower Age Copy Share Image
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic… — Jim Hightower Bias Copy Share Image
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. — Jim Hightower Conformity Copy Share Image
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you… — Jim Hightower America Copy Share Image
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. — Jim Hightower Corporations Copy Share Image
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want… — Jim Hightower Care Copy Share Image
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event.… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever… — Jim Hightower Administration Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Agriculture Copy Share Image
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine… — Jim Hightower Computers Copy Share Image
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including… — Jim Hightower Big corporations Copy Share Image
The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense… — Jim Hightower High places Copy Share Image
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts… — Jim Hightower Activism Copy Share Image
Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know the news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Abolitionist Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control… — Jim Hightower Approach Copy Share Image
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. — Jim Hightower Armadillos Copy Share Image
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill. — Jim Hightower Democracy Copy Share Image
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
