Jim Hightower Political Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

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