When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. Jim Hightower Read Quote
If you can’t be a populist in Arkansas, you ain’t going to be a populist in Washington. Jim Hightower Read Quote
It’s hard for the donkeys to win the race if they’re going to carry the elephants on their backs. Jim Hightower Read Quote
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. Jim Hightower Read Quote
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. Jim Hightower Read Quote
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. Jim Hightower Read Quote
You can’t do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. Jim Hightower Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level – everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. Jim Hightower Read Quote
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 Read Quote
