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Jim Hightower Quotes

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Ronald Reagan’s idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn’t be just boring meetings  (Jim Hightower Quotes) When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn’t be just boring meetings.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment  (Jim Hightower Quotes) This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption  (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  (Jim Hightower Quotes) The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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 founding values  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Banks don’t commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won’t ever stop if they don’t have to pay for their crimes.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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 Quotes) Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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 elections are having terrific success.  (Jim Hightower Quotes) 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 Quotes) The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Even a dead fish can go with the flow  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building  (Jim Hightower Quotes) America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Even a little dog can piss on a big building  (Jim Hightower Quotes) The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit  (Jim Hightower Quotes) Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist  (Jim Hightower Quotes) The issue isn’t just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages  (Jim Hightower Quotes)
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