113 Quotes by Jim Hightower

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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