Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
James Allen "Jim" Hightoweris an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 January 1943
CountryUnited States of America
mistakes
We just made a lot of mistakes in the jamboree,
courage opposites flow
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
flow conformity cowardice
Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
media people thieves
The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
party people wish
Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
race presidential why-not
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?
hotel-lobby government corporations
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
democracy culture ongoing
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.
differences today pigeons
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
destiny order political
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.
speaking-up democracy principles
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.
white house politician
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.
political republican empty
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
doe
When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.