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1. "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
2. "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 people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats." ~ Jim Hightower
3. "This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption." ~ Jim Hightower
4. "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 enough." ~ Jim Hightower
5. "When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism." ~ Jim Hightower
6. "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow." ~ Jim Hightower
7. "The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos." ~ Jim Hightower
8. "The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government." ~ Jim Hightower
9. "The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages." ~ Jim Hightower
10. "If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington." ~ Jim Hightower
11. "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." ~ Jim Hightower
12. "Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building." ~ Jim Hightower
13. "If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?" ~ Jim Hightower
14. "It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs." ~ Jim Hightower
15. "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
16. "But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do." ~ Jim Hightower
17. "Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom." ~ Jim Hightower
18. "You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force." ~ Jim Hightower
19. "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
20. "Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy." ~ Jim Hightower
21. "The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit." ~ Jim Hightower

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