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
Jim Hightower quotes about
offense played youth
I think it was just a combination of the two. We played pretty well on defense, and their youth really showed. Just like our youth showed on offense at times. But I'm very pleased. We haven't been 1-0 in a long time.
campaign convert defense legal million raised
He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.
aunt basketball labor lives morning player school street
His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament, ... He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.
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.
party people wish
Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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.
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.
dog legs building
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
journalism turns
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
self people greek
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.