113 Quotes by Jim Hightower

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn’t be just boring meetings.

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.

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.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don’t fall in the first place.

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