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

Jim Hightower

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

Jim Hightower

Politics

Right

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

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

Jim Hightower

Government

Corporations

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.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Jim Hightower

Jobs

Wages

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

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

Jim Hightower

Nothing

Road

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.

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

Jim Hightower

Politics

Journalism

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.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

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

Jim Hightower

Road

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.