Jim Hightower Quotes & Sayings

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”

“The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”

“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.”

“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”

“The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.”

“Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest 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 the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.”

“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.”

“Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”

“Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.”