Quotes by Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

America

Built

Conformist

America’s drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is — it’ll drive you to use drugs.

America

Stupid

War

Banks don’t commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won’t ever stop if they don’t have to pay for their crimes.

Bankers

Crime

Pay

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Becoming

Political

Politics

Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those people are now in rebellion. It’s not just poor people they are holding down but the middle class, as well. I have a favorite bumper sticker I saw on a pickup truck last year in Austin. It said, “Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?”

Bumper Sticker

People

Rebellion

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.

People

Political

Wall

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.

Humor

Mother

Two

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.

Democracy

Election Time

Events

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

Crazy

Ideas

Inspirational

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Conformity

Cowardice

Flow

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Agriculture

America

Arena

Armadillos

Attention

Bankers

Becoming

Believe

Boring

Boys

Building

Built

Bumper Sticker

Campaigns

Civilization

Clear

Conformist

Conformity

Corporations

Country

Courage

Cowardice

Crazy

Creeks

Crime

Dangerous

Defeated

Delay

Democracy

Destiny

Differences

Dinner

Doe

Dog

Dollars

Effort

Election Time

Elephants

Empowering

Events

Fall

Father

Fighting

Flow

Fun

Giving

God

Government

Greed

Greek

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Quotes by Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

America’s drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is — it’ll drive you to use drugs.

Banks don’t commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won’t ever stop if they don’t have to pay for their crimes.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

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.

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.

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.

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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