Quotes from Jim Hightower

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.

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

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

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.

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

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

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

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

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

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.

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.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

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

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

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

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.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

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.