Jim Hightower Quotes

James Allen Hightower is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991 he served as elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. January 1943
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Famous Jim Hightower Quotes

“There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)

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

Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2002), p. 141

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

Americans who tell the truth http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Jim_Hightower.html, portrait.

“The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.”

Bill Moyers Journal, 30 April 2010

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