All Jim Hightower Quotes
- This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. Corruption
- 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… All
- 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… Battling
- 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… Agriculture
- It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the… Agriculture
- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Conformity
- The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. American
- The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. Anymore
- The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. Armadillos
- The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. Even Slaves
- 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
- 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… All
- Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building. Building
- 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… Abolitionist
- It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. Backs
- You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. Force
- 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… American
- 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… Activism
- If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. Barrel
- Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist. Becoming
- If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? Matters
- There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. Armadillos