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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”

“Populism is at its essence [...] just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the me...”

“Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclos...”

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

“Responding to withering public criticism of the state's chaotic and disastrous response to a killer winter storm, Abbott fumed, What happened this week to our fellow Texans is absolutely unacceptab...”