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

- Jim Hightower

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor mo…

- Jim Hightower

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

- Jim Hightower

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

- Jim Hightower

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

- Jim Hightower

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

- Jim Hightower

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing bu…

- Jim Hightower

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

- Jim Hightower

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

- Jim Hightower