“There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”
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James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated columnist, populist activist and author. Since 1993 he has produced "Hightower Radio," a daily two-minute commentary carried by over 130 affiliates. He also hosted a weekend talk show on the ABC Radio Network and a weekday midday talk show on the United Broadcasting Network (later called America Radio Network). He is a popular speaker, crisscrossing the country to give about 100 speeches each year to a variety of audiences with the goal of organizing grassroots political activism. Hightower currently writes a nationally-syndicated column carried by 75 independent weekly newspapers and other publications. He also writes a monthly newsletter "The Hightower Lowdown," which has more than 125,000 subscribers.
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“There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”
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“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.”
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“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, i...”
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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,...”
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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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“The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.”
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“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 approa...”
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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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“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...”
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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 terrifi...”
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“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.”
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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 nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
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“Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.”
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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 St...”
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“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 ab...”
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