Jim Hightower Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.”

“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.”

“When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'”

“The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.”