Quotes from Jim Hightower

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

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

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

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

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

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

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.

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.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

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

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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