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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim Hightower
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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.
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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
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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.
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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.
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
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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.'
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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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.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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